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| Is Dubya About to Withdraw the Miers Nomination? |
| 2005-10-22 |
| Pretty interesting analysis from RealClearPolitics' Tom Beven. My view is that Miers was a non-starter from the very start and a withdrawl of the nomination will yield nothing but benefit to Dubya. Now, BRING ON JANICE ROGERS BROWN, please. Make us smile again. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #9 I'm a bit suspicious of this because I watched a White House press conference about a week ago where the juvenile press brats did all they could to get the press secretary to answer one question - Do you think Miers is not strong enough to withstand the political heat and may withdraw. The press secretary refused to play into whatever their game was. He did a good job and would give them only one quote. Do your job and report on her record so that people can know who she is. His refusal to play into their game made me wonder why the desperate desire for the press brats to claw and scratch for an answer that they could use to indicate that Meirs was too weak to withstand the publicity. They asked it over and over again and then asked it sixteen different ways. The press conference descended into angry chaos over the question. So now they are trying a new way to make it sound like Meirs is about to withdraw...any day now. Maybe so, but then again, maybe this is just another attempt by the MSM to shape the news by creating their own gloomy predictions. Gosh, imagine that. |
| Posted by: Grush Tholuger7316 2005-10-22 23:17 |
| #8 Brown - if she can be guaranteed to stand up better for 2nd Amendment rights (she's soft there). Luttig is the better choice. McConnell after that. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2005-10-22 22:09 |
| #7 she should see the writing on teh wall and withdraw. Brown or Luttig |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-22 16:08 |
| #6 You'd think he'd earned to do as he saw fit. No American President has the right to "do as he [sees] fit." And thank God for it. |
| Posted by: Omoque Flotle4810 2005-10-22 16:02 |
| #5 I agree with you in good part, SE9500. The only caveat I'd add is that while I am concerned about fiscal issues, I'm more concerned about preserving the fragile majority that is willing to face down the jihadis and deal with the other massive upheavals we can expect over the next couple decades. If it takes some deficit spending to keep that coalition together and fund the way, I'm supportive. Would like obvious fat to be cut, of course ... but the monies pouring into the WOT are important and some of them aren't obviously WOT related. R&D monies, subsidies to cities and states to deploy radiological, bio and chem sniffers at ports etc etc. are as likely to be stuffed into transportation bills as to be called out as war-related. That gives political cover to the dems who are still supporting Bush on this. |
| Posted by: too true 2005-10-22 14:30 |
| #4 The man has not back down on Iraq or the WoT and you expect a beltway rebellion is going to unnerve him? You'd think he'd earned to do as he saw fit. But oh no. This is one way for the Rep's to start losing the middle. Neither the Reps or Dems can run America without the consent of the center. Even a reasonable person has seen that the Reps don't have the votes without the RINOs and a few DINOs to pass the much promoted names by the conservatives. So, go ahead, knock yourself out. The conservative mouthpieces have acted no better than MoveOn, the DU or the Kos Kiddies. Now they have betrayed the fiscal restraint plank. The only difference between the two extremes is the velocity they destroy the place. They're making it easier for me to sit out the next one. A plague on both houses. |
| Posted by: Slolet Ebbailing9500 2005-10-22 14:16 |
| #3 Top of the issues that brought me to the polls is the federal judiciary, including SCOTUS. It is what will bring me to the polls in 2006. Bush has a lot of work to do, and the Meirs nomination was a simple political mistake. Bush oughta own up to it and appoint a nominee, such as Brown or Owens, if he is that interested in appointing a woman to SCOTUS. And I agree, the cravenness wqith which the religious folks on the right fell in behind Meirs is indeed troubling, but no less so than the left wanting a hearing on a Bush appointee for once. Both extremes have been pushing this pig of a nomination because both believe their own causes will be advanced. It was actually funny, hearing the left in the senate, before it came out how much against abortion Meirs was, pleading to just give Meirs a hearing, and then to hear the religious elements on the right wanting her to be confirmed. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-10-22 13:39 |
| #2 Oh for crying out loud. Miers is mediocre but the way in which her nomination exposed the intent of the social conservatives to push repeal of Roe and similar issues at any cost disturbs me greatly. There are more frigging important issues right now than to divide Congress and the country over an issue that a clear majority of citizens say should be left alone. Where the hell are the political leaders determined to hold this country together to face a long, difficult and chronic war on Islamacist terror, plus deal with the no longer tenable huge differences in income and freedom that create the looming pressure for massive immigration flows? Oh, wait ... that's about what Dubya is trying to do. Too bad those on the right are more concerned about narrower issues. Too bad for us as a country. And no, that is not necessarily a pro-Miers position. But it sure as hell is an anti-the-anti-Miers-hysteria one. |
| Posted by: disgusted 2005-10-22 13:31 |
| #1 If you were Janice Rogers Brown watching what happened to the Miers nomination, would this encourage you to want to be confirmed or increace your hesitancy to be nominated? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-10-22 13:19 |