Miers Withdraws Nomination
Read about it here.
Does this clear the way for Bush to nominate someone more pleasing to social conservatives?
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Read about it here.
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Kudos to those who called Mier's nomination as a cynical Bushie head-fake. Now we get the REAL candidate. This one should be a doosey.
Our friends at the Smoking Gun posted a scan of her letter here.
Wow, did she NOT write that herself. What a pathetic excuse! Executive privilege has held up pretty well through confirmation processes for 200+ years, including the confirmation of CJ Roberts a few weeks ago (remember - he worked in the White House counsel's office too). Weak, very weak.
I'll tell you what killed her nomination: the newspaper reports about her speeches in the early '90s in which she expressed her belief in [gasp!] separation of church and state. James Dobson must have let out a howl that broke glass in the White House. The religious right will be DAMNED before they let a nominee who supports THAT assume the bench.
A more personal writing sample is also on display at TSG.
Who is Sykes?
I don't know. I'm still a little skeptical of the 'Miers as a left jab' to set up the 'ultra-conservative nominee uppercut.' I think that Bush honestly thought she could get confirmed. (And what a crappy thing to do to a loyal aide--drag 'em through the mud for nothing?) Maybe I'm just being naive. I guess that next couple of weeks will tell. Interesting that the Dems were mostly silent on Miers and it was the GOP that was most vocal in opposition. I think that and the whole Dobson comment (about being assured that she was an evangelical Christian) are what sunk her nomination.
I'm not sure how I feel about the possibility of this being a smokescreen. I wouldn't put anything past them at this point, but I think the whole debacle has hurt this White House even further. Either way, I'm totally confident that the next nominee is going to make Harriet Miers look like Ted Kennedy (figuratively speaking, of course). Democrats will be wishing Miers had stayed the course.
The really frightening thing for me is this proves, once again, how powerful this Christian right really is.
Thanks Shanan. Actually, I haven't heard her name mentioned anywhere. I missed her 7th Cir. appointment too. She's pretty obscure.
It would be an interesting twist to have a cute nominee, though! :)
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What are you talking about, man? Miers was a hottie!!
I just threw up a little, in my mouth.
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