Miers withdraws her nomination?

Have been hearing alot of blather about this. Hearings are scheduled to start Nov. 8

Talkingheads aren't expressing much hope that Miers would survive the hearings and are speculating her nomination will be withdrawn before Nov. 8 - most likely "excuse" would be "for personal reasons". A few of the talkingheads say she's weak on constitutional law and this will hurt her in the hearings.

What do you think? Will she or won't she? Will bush* stay the course with her or dump her? If Miers withdraws - will this hurt/help bush*?

When indictments hit, Miers problems will be a welcome distraction. They may send her up, let her get savaged, and then come back with someone his base will dig.

I don't think saving her from agony is in the cards. There's a lot of people with a stick that want a whack at the pinata known only as Harriet Miers.


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It would get the news focusing on Miers a bit more and take some of the heat off the Indictments coming tomorrow (assuming indictments come Thursday as The Washington Note mentioned). It would also turn most of the bad news of Thursday into a one day story that the Administration could rebound from (especially with it's base) when they announce a far crazier right wing nominee.

If I am Bush, I'd withdraw Thursday and take the one day hit, rather than draw through the hearings and have days, even weeks of the media continuing to call him incompetent. Pull her, take the one day hit and come back, as early as next week with a new nominee.

It certainly would sidetrack some of the reporters on the CIA leak case. Taking any of the heat off the administration at this point for those indictments, seems to strategically be the best move possible.

Now as a liberal, fuck him. I hope he does play stupid and let the Miers thing turn into a three week clusterfuck while his boys are all indicted and facing charges. It would be a monumental disaster to play his hand that way.

Rp

...either that, or Op Northwoods II...:scared:

Or is he going to send Robert Bork back up? ha ha

ie Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, Edith Jones....

They wouldn't stand for another so called "moderate"

I just hope that if *bush sends up a RW freak, the Dems have the backbone to vote it down in committee and filibuster it on the Senate floor. Damn the "group of 14" senators who brokered the deal to stop the nuclear option. If * is defending Rove &Cheney for outing CIA agent Plame, the Dems should make a stand. O'Connor could stay there 'til 2009 or just vacate the seat for all I care.

But for the first time I think we can reasonably state that the GOP leadership implementing radical changes in rules through the "nuclear option" is very irresponsible, if for no other reason than that their control of the Senate is likely not to last past 2006.