Miers Withdraws

[Guerilla poster]

Originally Posted by SamTheEagle

There's a large pool of well-qualified conservatives. Some of them are even minorities and women if he is so inclined. With the beating he took from all sides on this one, let's just hope he's not foolish enough to nominate Gonzales. People on both sides hate him too.

I heard he will nominate Hilary Clinton, to keep her out of the Presidency.

[Pseudolus]

http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/LettertoPresident.pdf

Miers's withdrawal letter ^^^^.

In it, she says that she's withdrawing over the issue of document requests from Congress and executive independence. OK.

[Moe Szyslak]

He will nominate a white male. Guaranteed.

[fallout]

I hear he will nominate himself.

He is, after all, the smartest person the former nominee ever met.

[Devilish]

Originally Posted by Moe Szyslak

He will nominate a fascist white male. Guaranteed.

IFYQ

[SamTheEagle]

Originally Posted by Moe Szyslak

He will nominate a white male. Guaranteed.

Even if he does, is that a terrible thing?

If the most qualified person is a white male, should he be excluded?

[EweTupper]

He can't nominate another woman. The big cover over the Miers nomination was that all the other qualified conservative female potential nominees asked not to be nominated because of the venomous nomination process. If they nominate one after the Miers debacle, they'll lose credibility (amongst those who still hold them credible).

Somebody (I'm thinking Krauthammer) mentioned this scenario EXACTLY as how Bush can get out of it:
-Senate requests information
-Bush refuses to supply it based on "executive privelge"
-Senate says they can't nominate her without information
-Nominee withdraws because of separation of powers has nothing at all to do with incompetence, not no how no way.

[Moe Szyslak]

Originally Posted by SamTheEagle

Even if he does, is that a terrible thing?

If the most qualified person is a white male, should he be excluded?

I have thought from day one that the Miers nomination was put out there only for the purpose of satisfying the critics calling for a female nominee, that she would be so unqualified that when he went with a qualified white male, no one would have the guts to complain.

This is Roves last big play in politics.

[Pseudolus]

Originally Posted by EweTupper

He can't nominate another woman. The big cover over the Miers nomination was that all the other qualified conservative female potential nominees asked not to be nominated because of the venomous nomination process. If they nominate one after the Miers debacle, they'll lose credibility (amongst those who still hold them credible).

Somebody (I'm thinking Krauthammer) mentioned this scenario EXACTLY as how Bush can get out of it:
-Senate requests information
-Bush refuses to supply it based on "executive privelge"
-Senate says they can't nominate her without information
-Nominee withdraws because of separation of powers has nothing at all to do with incompetence, not no how no way.

Survey says? Ding!

[Roto]

I don't necessarily think this is a good thing...

Bush is the devil