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With just two weeks remaining before confirmation hearings, no Republican senator has publicly suggested that she withdraw, but the most recent rumblings from Capitol Hill are at best neutral about the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, says a report in the NY Times. Even as White House Counsel Miers continued her visits with lawmakers, she has not excelled at winning the minds and hearts of GOP leaders, concluded the Times. Of the 10 Republicans on the key 18-member Judiciary Committee, three have publicly raised concerns. "I am uneasy about where we are,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama....

RUSH: I've been thinking about this Harriet Miers problem, folks. I got a solution. Everybody's got their ideas. One of the ideas is that Harriet Miers resign, withdraw, and that Bush nominate her to the appellate court - and let her get some seasoning and go through some hearings there and get out of it that way. I have a different idea but -- oh, before I give you my idea -- I saw a news story yesterday. Let me tell you what I think of it. Sam Brownback and the vice president, Lindsey Graham, both-- (interruption) No, wait. They...

RUSH: Jim Dobson recorded his radio show for today and tomorrow yesterday; the transcripts for that show are out. Now as you know, one of the things that irked Senator Specter is that Dobson admitted that maybe Karl Rove told him some things he "shouldn't know" – everybody assumed – when he called him to give him a heads-up on the nomination of Harriet Miers, the US Supreme Court. Well, everybody ran and rushed to judgment on that and said, "A-ha! A-ha! Rove told Dobson that she's a definite vote against Roe vs. Wade," which of course if that were...

RUSH: Bill in North Brunswick, New Jersey, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you. You are up first today. CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I have to say that I think the response of some of the big-name conservatives, Kristol, Podhoretz, Krauthammer and even you to an extent has been reflexively negative on this nomination. I've been a conservative for over 40 years, and I was inclined to at least give the president the benefit of the doubt through the first couple of days, perhaps through the hearings. You know, I think the behavior of conservatives in this matter...