The meetings have been fraught with misunderstandings and disagreements, giving ammunition to detractors, both liberal and conservative, that Miss Miers is in over her head.The official story is that she needs the time to bone up on constitutional law for the hearings and that the hearings will present the candidate more clearly. But does anyone really think she'll be able to present herself more favorably in the hearing room than in those private meetings?
"No one is walking out of these meetings thinking they've just met with a star," a Republican Judiciary staffer said yesterday.
Withdraw! Withdraw! All signs point to: Withdraw!
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Isn't that what they call "bad news friday?"
Ann
It seems Miers is becoming a victim of intellectual biases that are feeding a self-fulfilling prophecy (wishful thinking) that her nomination will be aborted (Borked?). The way this woman has been pilloried – especially by her fellow "judge not, lest ye be judged" Christians - is really quite sad.
Give her a chance Ann. What are you so afraid of? Incidentally, perhaps with one exception, I doubt any of the Justices sitting on the Court today would’ve fared well as a nominee following in the shadow of John Roberts.
Do-overs. Boning up. What next, an all-night cram session? These are the sort of terms you'd use in connection with a schoolgirl,not a Supreme. But here we are How can the powers-that-be not see how ridiculous this situation is? Sigh.
ALH: Give her a chance? It's a lifetime appointment.
"2005-10-18) -- Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, making the rounds among influential Senators yesterday, refused to answer questions about her views on the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade (1973), citing her right to privacy as found in the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court ruling..."
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002360.html
I can't shake this feeling that it's Magic 8-Ball.
"All signs point to: withdraw".
Reply hazy. Ask again later.
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