Conservatives Confront Bush Aides

I'm loving every minute as these Rethugs castigate each other over the Miers nomination. Let them eat their own!!
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Anger Over Nomination of Miers Boils Over During Private Meetings

The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president's envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings.

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At one point in the first of the two off-the-record sessions, according to several people in the room, White House adviser Ed Gillespie suggested that some of the unease about Miers "has a whiff of sexism and a whiff of elitism." Irate participants erupted and demanded that he take it back. Gillespie later said he did not mean to accuse anyone in the room but "was talking more broadly" about criticism of Miers.

The tenor of the two meetings suggested that Bush has yet to rally his own party behind Miers and underscores that he risks the biggest rupture with the Republican base of his presidency. While conservatives at times have assailed some Bush policy decisions, rarely have they been so openly distrustful of the president himself.

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The persistent criticism has put the White House on the defensive ever since Bush announced Monday his decision to nominate Miers to succeed the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. While Miers has a long career as a commercial lawyer, Texas political figure and personal attorney to Bush before joining him at the White House, she has never been a judge or dealt extensively with the sorts of constitutional issues that occupy the Supreme Court.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100502200.html

this would not appear to be anything staged; pass the f***ing popcorn already

Yeah, many of us would like a giant "do over." Sounds like Gillespie hit a raw nerve.

Oh they don't like it when they are the brunt of the dirty tricks?

Take it back! Too funny. I love this show.

Note to Bush: could someone know something YOU DON'T? I think very much so.

A stealth candidate is meant to fool somebody, pull the wool over somebody's eyes. Conservatives always knew Bush was a liar and duplicitous, but they always assumed he was lying to get around the majority moderates and libs opposition.

Now it suddenly dawns on them that a weakened Bush would just as quickly and could just as easily lie to conservatives. Instead of Bush lying FOR them, he's seen as working for himself.

Wake up, sheeple. The man's a liar. You shouldn't trust him, not on the nomination, not with the powers of the presidency.

Time for congress to rein him in, including a NO vote on what's his name.