CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

My worst fear about this upcoming Monday night was that I'd open my door and there would be Harriet Miers dressed up like a Supreme Court Nominee. LOL

Whew!

[inquest]

Which is precisely why conservatives needed to shut up, support and trust the President and have allowed the confirmations to move forward.

As if Miers would have ruffled the Dems feathers? I doubt it.

We're past the "trust" stage. We're now onto "verify". If he wants to win this fight, he needs everyone on board, and the way to do that is by nominating someone whom we can see is solid. The path is quite clear.

[Rider on the Rain]

since it appears that our military is not capable of "winning" the Iraq situation...bring them home...now!

You cannot be a true patriotic conservative and make a chicken $hit Sandy Sheehan statement like that.

[roses of sharon]

The conservative media was deplorable, deliciously so.

Only, as usual, they refuse to use the same "deplorable" tactics on our real enemies.

Their dinner buddies in the MSM.

Which is why the conservative press has failed to reach mass media status.

They have ZERO influence of the public. None. And their betters in the MSM still write the script for this country.

[Trust but Verify]

Well, it was a political calculation. They wanted her off the Wisconsin Supreme Court so that court could be taken over by liberals when we stupidly elected a liberal governor.

She is only about 45 years old, has two teenaged sons and is the former wife of conservative radio host and author Charles Sykes.

[yellowdoghunter]

I did not work my ass off in 2000 and 2004 to have a moderate appointed to the USSC.

I agree completely....

[You Dirty Rats]

There damn well should be a fight. That's how wars are won

Or lost.

My scenario would be for JRB to be nominated, the 'Rats to fight to the death and filibuster, Frist calls a vote on the "nucular" option, the vote ties 50-50, and Cheney casts the tiebreaking vote while looking at Leaky Leahy and mouthing another "FU" to him /fantasy off

This has nothing to do with what is acceptable to the 'Rats. It's a question of whether or not a nominee gets one of the following:

50 votes without a filibuster

60 votes with a filibuster

50 votes to go "nucular" with a filibuster

Without one of those three, there is no confirmation.

[tarzantheapeman]

The quagmire in Iraq, the rising deficits, no control of our borders, and forgetting his base has undermined his second term.

So ... the GOP joins the rats?

[anniegetyourgun]

Ditto - ally'all.....

[George W. Bush]

Our squishy FR RINO Chicken Little sickspur says Janice Rogers Brown isn't going to be the next nominee...what do you think W.?

Hey, I posted a list any conservative would love. Some are less controversial than others (for those who cower over the thought of a fight with the invalid Dims).

Strangely enough, Chrissy Matthews is on MSNBC now. He's espousing a philosophy of affirmative action that is actually to the right of those speeches Miers gave at the Texas ABA.

I'm so glad Mrs. Souter didn't make it on the Court.

[LibertarianInExile]

Well said BUMP!

A good fight would be the end of the Democrats posturing as defenders of the Constitution. And the ideal appointee would be able to defend the Constitution in front of the Senate and educate the public, unlike a Roberts, who simply used his education to sidestep the questions. Sure, the Senate is a bunch of buffoons. But ignoring them isn't the same thing as exposing them. That can only come when an educator has the floor.

So, pick Alex Kozinski, Mr. President. If he won't do it, pick Janice Rogers Brown. They'll make their own case. It'll be good for the country to have the Constitutional debate in public again, instead of Congress trying to put all the controversial decisions on the judges and the executive. And that you fought for the Constitution's return to primacy in American government, instead of judicial rule, that will be a more lasting legacy than any war could ever be.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Yep. It's kinda like we have standars...

How strange...

Maybe if we drank the Kool Aid you drink we would all tow a party line, not unlike those crazy Democrats!

[FairOpinion]

While it would be interesting to think it was all "strategery", I don't really think so. President Bush has been right on almost everything he did and decided, within the possible circumstances. He pulled a boner on this one -- one per 8 years is allowed, as long as he corrects it, as he is doing with this one.

If he goes back to being "the cowboy" we love, the president who leads us in the War on Terror, and get tough with the Dems and defecting RINOs, forget compromise, we need to beat them, then "the best is yet to come".

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

And all those who don't hate anyone but who honestly felt she was not either qualified nor a true conservative are praying that Bush will now nominate a truly qualified conservative constructionist with a substantial track record supporting that assessment.

Needs to be said again..!!

Nice post..!!

And again.

[Lazamataz]

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.

I've already left the Republican party. If he did that, I'd rejoin just to leave it twice.

[adam_az]

"He was THE BEST individual appointed to the Bush cabinet during his first term."

I'm also partial to Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Was not fond of Hutchison or Powell. This go around, I don't like Rice, either. Goss is looking promising so far as a good pick, though I had my doubts about him at first. I'm still not sold on Roberts - it will take a season of USSC session to decide.

[Dane]

Sen. Brownback on Fox

Sen. Brownback being very gracious and level headed and logical.

He didn't do a victory dance and was respectful of the President and didn't seem to rub the President's nose in it as many people on FR are wont to do.

[July 4th]

Bingo. They got Sykes off of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the new liberal majority on the court has already ripped apart Wisconsin's jurisprudence.

[meyer]

I did not work my ass off in 2000 and 2004 to have a moderate appointed to the USSC.

I agree (though I didn't quite work as hard as many). The Supreme court has been in the hands of the extreme left for decades. Now is the time to change it back to something closely resembling the body that it once was - a body that protects and defends the constitution of the United States.

[rhombus]

Agree - all the boohooers here saying we cannot win because Miers was jettisoned are wrong. It was just, what, a month or two ago Roberts sailed through. Conservatives support their prez but not blindly. The SCOTUS is too important to let Schumer and Reid have more influence on the pick than the base. Sorry moderates, that's the way it is.

OK let's "get-r-done". Who are the RINOs whose votes we have to have on the "real conservative"? Specter, Collins, Snowe, Chaffee...