CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[icwhatudo]

We want this. We want the nuclear option. We want tough leadership. We want all the senate RINO's exposed so we can get rid of them too.

YES!!!

[StarFan]

"Forced out by hard-line conservatives" Yup, heard it early on CNN along with "cronyism".

[livius]

We never even got to hear the woman's opinions. How do you know she wouldn't have been good?

Personally, I think he's going to nominate Gonzales. No problem with confirmation because he's very liberal, and the conservative high priests who canned Miers won't be able to pull off such a stunt twice in a row.

[nicmarlo]

We all deserve a do-over from time to time.

Yes...and we must also pray that the right person's heart is willing to go through the fire for the "prize."

[devane617]

Good news! Now let's put this train back on the tracks and move faster than a speeding locomotive.

[muawiyah]

You might believe that, but Libertarians have a demonstrable trackrecord of untrustworthiness.

[SuperSonic]

[MortMan]

We want tough leadership.

< cheeky > We always want what we don't have. < /cheeky>

If the nuclear option (I prefer the term "constitutional option") was truly on the table way-back-when, we wouldn't be in the situation we now find ourselves "Miered" in.

[SmoothTalker]

" I will never forget what has been done to this woman and to this President"

The Supereme Court is too important for just anyone to be allowed on. Harriet seems like a great woman, but there are hundreds of people in this country with records that are as good or better and hundreds of people who have been fighting in the trenches against judicial liberalism for decades and who have proven themselves to be great constitutional scholars.

[rhombus]

The manner in which Miers was sunk gives the Dems in the Senate a huge lift. They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis. They've wanted an opportunity to derail the process, and it was just handed to them. It would have been much better for her to have failed on a vote where there would be a lot of Democrats on record as having opposed her. Now, the withdrawal will be blamed entirely on the right. And the Dem "support" for her will be there excuse to derail future nominees.

You got that exactly right. So much for our claim about everyone deserving a fair up or down vote. We are all severely weakened... but some feel there is victory in defeat or are just content with "moral" victories. Those victories NEVER get anything done in Washington.

[RushCrush]

AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-27-05 08:56 AM Response to Original message we destroyed her. This is a great day for DU.

Bwa ha! DU is claiming victory on this one...

[not2worry]

I AGREE! BRING 'EM ON!

[RockinRight]

Nope, not at all. It was her lack of proven constructionist credentials.

[GOPJ]

Just remember most of the people who opposed Miers were the same who opposed Roberts and oppose everything the Preisdent does. They hate him just as much as the kook left does which is why they sound more and more like them every day.

I opposed Mires, but I've backed President Bush for years. And I backed Roberts. You're painting with too broad a brush...

[TXBSAFH]

We wer supposed to not get uppity and just drink th koolaid.

[Cuttnhorse]

Well said and I agree with you completely.

The entire discussion here on FR was amazing in that if anyone voiced dissagreement with the Miers nomination, that person hated Miers, hated the president and was a lefty lurking on Free Republic.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Thank you ANN COULTER, Bork, and others for speaking out against this nomination. You were right.

Pffft!

Yeah...she was right.

It was quite shocking to see all the new-found Coulter turncoats throughout this whole thing, she really rattled the cages of the personality cultists.

[You Dirty Rats]

If these people (Bush hating conservatives) don't ease up, the nation will get no supreme court justice worth having.

There isn't a chance in the world of any "easing up" now; not after the debacle of the Miers nomination.

Looks like those on the Left and Right who wanted a fight to the death in the Senate will get their wish. I doubt we have the votes to succeed.

[HapaxLegamenon]

Wouldn't that be great!

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>"Right" is to get a nominee confirmed.<<<

So, it was right for Bush to nominate Souter; Reagan to nominate O'Connor and Kennedy? That is ridiculous.