Miers Withdraws her nomination

[MaxFisher]

http://www.cnn.com/

 

[nbcrusader]

Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination

WASHINGTON - Confronted with criticism from both the left and right, Harriet Miers on Thursday withdrew her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a statement, President Bush said he “reluctantly accepted” her decision to withdraw, after weeks of insisting that he did not want her to step down.

The White House said he blamed her withdrawal on calls in the Senate for the release of internal White House documents that the administration has insisted were protected by executive privilege.

Who gets to declare victory on this one??

 

[MaxFisher]

It's embarrassing for Bush.

But I think in the long run it'll be a victory for conservatives. I believe we'll get another nominee in the vein of John Roberts, an obvious conservative with strong academic credentials and judicial experience.

 

[For Honor]

interesting... i want to hear what everyone thinks

 

[For Honor]

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[A_Wanderer]

It certainly shows that a system of checks and balances does still exist.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

well i guess karl rove has another day to figure out a candidate who doesn't suck before he gets indicted...

 

[verte76]

Yeah, now he's going to nominate a big time conservative.

 

[U2Girl1978]

She didn't look trustworthy at all. And for god sakes quit it with the eye makeup.

 

[U2democrat]

Hopefully all this bad news for the republicans in Washington will trickle down here in Virginia and we'll get Tim Kaine in the governor's mansion

I'm feelin good!

I'll be interested to see who his next nominee is though...man? woman? extreme right wing? moderate right wing?

 

[anitram]

This whole thing has stunk of a set up right from the start. They must think we're all stupid.

 

[deep]

Who gets to declare victory on this one??

are you living a vacuum??

The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination,"

Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."

The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush's conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity, and Democrats had little incentive to help the nominee or the embattled GOP president.

"Let's move on," said Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"

 

[MaxFisher]

This whole thing has stunk of a set up right from the start. They must think we're all stupid.

The vast right-wing conspiracy strikes again!

 

[financeguy]

Yup, it's the VRWC.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I'll be interested to see who his next nominee is though...man? woman? extreme right wing? moderate right wing?

if they're smart... i.e. karl rove is back making the decisions and not worrying about his own problems... they'll go for another roberts-esque nomination.

if they're not... i.e. karl has too much shit of his on going on and W gets to make his own decisions... they'll go for whoever was bush's freshman roommate at yale.

or maybe sammy sosa.

 

[U2democrat]

Sammy Sosa on the SCOTUS! That would be pretty cool.

 

[nbcrusader]

are you living a vacuum??

Cute.

I realize the Dems are already blaming the "radical right wing". More interesting posturing to come.

 

[deep]

And Limbaugh

is calling it a victory for the Conservative right

saying THEY are responsible for the withdrawal.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

the conservative right and the liberal left should hop in a car together and drive off a cliff ala thelma and louise.

perhaps then we'll be left with the logical middle.

 

[U2democrat]

Originally posted by Headache in a Suitcase the conservative right and the liberal left should hop in a car together and drive off a cliff ala thelma and louise.

perhaps then we'll be left with the logical middle.

You wouldn't want me to die now would you?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

You wouldn't want me to die now would you?

are you saying you aren't logical?

 

[ladywithspinninghead]

And most of the Canadians would be dead too! (well, the smart ones anyway)

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

so let's just say let's hope those who think everythign the left does is super dooper and those who think everything the right does is super dooper and never think that maybe there might be good and bad ideas from both sides... whew... get in a car and drive off a cliff like thelma and louise.

 

[Se7en]

so let's just say let's hope those who think everythign the left does is super dooper and those who think everything the right does is super dooper and never think that maybe there might be good and bad ideas from both sides... whew... get in a car and drive off a cliff like thelma and louise.

see you guys in hell!

 

[financeguy]

so let's just say let's hope those who think everythign the left does is super dooper and those who think everything the right does is super dooper and never think that maybe there might be good and bad ideas from both sides... whew... get in a car and drive off a cliff like thelma and louise.

I'm be interested to hear how you and others on here define 'left' and 'right', as I tend to think the US system is geared towards the right wing anyway compared to Europe (or conversely, the EU system is more geared towards the left compared with the United States).

For example, U2democrat seems to support mainly relatively mainstream Democrat candidates (correct me if I'm wrong U2democrat ), but sees herself as being on the 'liberal left'.

There are only about 2 or 3 genuine socialists that contribute to FYM, all of the rest of us broadly are on favour of the capitalist system to a greater or lesser extent.

 

[nathan1977]

This is all foolishness. The Dems killed the nom just as much as the radical right wing did. Reid was the only one who was pulling for her; everyone else was staunchly opposed.

It's silly that the Dems are blaming a minority group for politicizing this, when they did as much politicizing as anybody. Her nomination was doomed from the outset.

 

[U2democrat]

I'm be interested to hear how you and others on here define 'left' and 'right', as I tend to think the US system is geared towards the right wing anyway compared to Europe (or conversely, the EU system is more geared towards the left compared with the United States).

For example, U2democrat seems to support mainly relatively mainstream Democrat candidates (correct me if I'm wrong U2democrat ), but sees herself as being on the 'liberal left'.

There are only about 2 or 3 genuine socialists that contribute to FYM, all of the rest of us broadly are on favour of the capitalist system to a greater or lesser extent.

I agree with your assessment of me.

Edited to add: I personally am usually further left than the candidates I support.

 

[financeguy]

This is all foolishness. The Dems killed the nom just as much as the radical right wing did. Reid was the only one who was pulling for her; everyone else was staunchly opposed.

It's silly that the Dems are blaming a minority group for politicizing this, when they did as much politicizing as anybody. Her nomination was doomed from the outset.

I believe it is the function of an opposition to provide opposition.
I believe this is called politics.

 

[U2democrat]

politics

 

[Irvine511]

This is all foolishness. The Dems killed the nom just as much as the radical right wing did. Reid was the only one who was pulling for her; everyone else was staunchly opposed.

It's silly that the Dems are blaming a minority group for politicizing this, when they did as much politicizing as anybody. Her nomination was doomed from the outset.

no way.

the Dems have said basically nothing on her nomination, aside from Reid saying that he liked her and Nancy Pelosi (i think) wondering if she wasn't getting a tougher shake-down from the right because she was a woman.

the played smart politics; as you know, as Ronan Keating once sang, "you say it best when you say nothing at all."

the Right is very happy about this -- Bill Kristol, the National Review, Ann Coulter, etc., have been begging for her resignation for weeks, and now claiming it as a victory for the right.

her nomination was doomed the minute Bush thought his personal lawyer who, btw, thinks that he's the most brilliant man she's ever met, would make a fine supreme court justice.

this is the Right Wing fighting a civil war.

and it was a healthy one -- it was the intellectuals vs. the dynasty.