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mrydel wrote:Well, I am not an attorney nor do I play one on TV but if you can not even get your own team to back you there is going to be trouble. Is Bork still alive? Let's bring him back and see what kind of stir that causes!!!!

Bork is alive, he wrote a scathing editorial about Miers in the Wall Street Journal last week. Major misstep by Bush. If they didnt expect a fight, they badly miscalculated picking her in the first place. And to not finish the fight looks really bad. Maybe I'm wrong, but I dont think it would be any worse to have her confirmation denied than it does to withdraw her.

mrydel wrote:I have no idea why he did this unless he knew she was going to withdraw and is setting it up for a hard core conservative and a battle that will bring out the "nuclear option".

Me thinks you give W too much credit for being able to stratigize on political matters.

PK wrote:

mrydel wrote:I have no idea why he did this unless he knew she was going to withdraw and is setting it up for a hard core conservative and a battle that will bring out the "nuclear option".

Me thinks you give W too much credit for being able to stratigize on political matters.

I agree, PK, when I read that I thought it sounded awfully Rovian. It may be true, but if so it's clearly not a thought that originally formed in Dubya's head.

Harriett Meiers officially thrown under the bus, October 27, 2005.

EastStang wrote:Harriett Meiers officially thrown under the bus, October 27, 2005.

But Rosa Parks was still riding inside it.

"Let's move on, in a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"

Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi

who's Trent Lott.....j/k