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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

just breaking!!!!!!!!


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To: quantim
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!!!

481 posted on 10/27/2005 6:24:47 AM PDT by icwhatudo (The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
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To: TexasNative2000
"Forced out by hard-line conservatives" Yup, heard it early on CNN along with "cronyism".
482 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:01 AM PDT by StarFan
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To: Acts 2:38

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.


483 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:02 AM PDT by livius
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To: DoughtyOne
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."

484 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:06 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


485 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:08 AM PDT by devane617
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To: xrp

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


486 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:09 AM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: rightinthemiddle

487 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:19 AM PDT by SuperSonic (Don't just complain. Do something productive! >> www.clubforgrowth.org <<)
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To: quantim
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.

488 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:21 AM PDT by MortMan (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: mountainfolk

" 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.


489 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:27 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: XJarhead
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.

490 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:34 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: SoFloFreeper
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...

491 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:34 AM PDT by RushCrush (The Original Harriet Miers Free Zone ™)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I AGREE! BRING 'EM ON!


492 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:42 AM PDT by not2worry (What Goes Around Comes Around!)
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To: muawiyah

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


493 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:45 AM PDT by RockinRight (I am beginning to think conservatism is buried somewhere under New Orleans' mud...)
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To: COEXERJ145
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...

494 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (NYT: How many times do you have to ask for an error to be corrected before the "error" becomes a "li)
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To: Les_Miserables

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


495 posted on 10/27/2005 6:25:53 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (The GOP needs to be made to toe the conservative line, not the other way around.)
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To: goldstategop

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.


496 posted on 10/27/2005 6:26:08 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: monkapotamus
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.

497 posted on 10/27/2005 6:26:31 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
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To: xzins
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.

498 posted on 10/27/2005 6:26:31 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Lashed to the USS George W. Bush: Glub Glub Glub)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wouldn't that be great!


499 posted on 10/27/2005 6:26:46 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: rodguy911

>>>"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.


500 posted on 10/27/2005 6:26:54 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau ("The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." -- Psalms 14:1, 53:1)
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