WP: White House Changing Tactics on Miers

[highplainsdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101401765.html


White House Changing Tactics on Miers

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 15, 2005; Page A07

The White House, caught off guard by the intensity of the conservative backlash to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, plans to try to refocus the debate over the next week onto her legal qualifications and away from issues such as her religion, senior presidential advisers said yesterday.

Acknowledging that the campaign for Miers had slipped out of their control, the advisers said they will seek to validate her credentials for the high court through a series of media appearances, newspaper opinion pieces and letters of support from various people who have known the White House counsel during her previous career as a corporate lawyer and bar association leader in Texas.

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Usually closely aligned with the party's conservative base, the White House has been struggling to defuse the hostility to the Miers nomination among activists, lawyers and pundits. "I'm a little surprised that they came out of the box so cynically," White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said in a C-SPAN interview made public yesterday. Card, who was central to the Miers selection, said he accepted responsibility for any mishandling. "I am glad to carry the blame," he said.

In the interview, which was taped Thursday and will be aired tomorrow, Card denied an account by the American Spectator that he had to shout down opposition to Miers in staff meetings. "That is fiction," he said, "and I live in a nonfiction world." And he rejected calls to withdraw the nomination. "Too many people have rushed to a judgment without having had an opportunity to know Harriet Miers."

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[Straight Shooter]

1. So they're going to focus on her "qualifications"?

Well, it's time for Card to step right back into the world of fiction. Whatta dope. Or is that dupe?

[WhiteTara]

9. Isn't there some sort of saying about that house of cards?

Falls down? blows apart? Is an illusion? :shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

10. Doof.

Ridiculous!

[MichiganVote]

2. Miers is synonymous with the Bush Social Security plan

DOA

[SpiralHawk]

3. Ahh, the smell of fresh Propaganda in the morning...

Catapult some the Other Way would you.

It's revolting.

It's no way to use my tax dollars.

Build some roads, or plow some fields, build some levees, bury some high speed cable. That is what we citizens want our tax money to do.

Stop Catapulting the Propaganda, Mr. Bush & Cronies

[Psephos]

21. Ain't that the truth. n/t

[mokawanis]

4. Just another Bush blunder

The White House can spin this issue all day long and they'll still be stuck with the problem of trying to defend a choice that's enraged the right and divided shrub's base.

[Mr_Spock]

5. ...and the ship of fools turns the rudder hard to the left in the whirlpool

fools.

[rodeodance]

7. it started yesterday with Scotty M telling the reporters they were stuck

on religion!!--and reporters telling scott that he/WH was the one who always brought up religion!!

plans to try to refocus the debate over the next week onto her legal qualifications and away from issues such as her religion, senior presidential advisers said yesterday.

[Toucano]

6. "...I live in a nonfiction world."

Yeah, right. That's what they all say, buddy!

[msongs]

8. DEMS not calling her "bush get out jail free card" is a mistake because

the dems could tie her and bush into all the scandals now occuring with various repubs....

then again, maybe the dems are gonna vote en masse for her to be on the court.

imagine that, voting to have a person's own personal attorney be the judge in that person's trial. how sweet it is.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/clark2008.htm

[ToolTex]

11. Exactly Msongs. She'll set Bush SCOTUS FREEUS.

His get out of jail free card- very good!

[Demeter]

13. I'm Betting Fitzgerald Will Settle Her Hash Along With the Rest of Them

The man is hot and out for blood and hides. And elephants make such easy targets.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Perhaps someone put the buzz in the Democrats ear to sit tight

because Meirs is already on Fitzgerald's list. When it rains, it pours....

[Charlie Brown]

12. but "Miers' life is her religion"

what more do we need to know?

[Imalittleteapot]

14. Her religion is the worship of gwb. n/t

[Corgigal]

15. Next week

might be a really bad time for this adminstration. I mean REALLY bad.

[TygrBright]

17. Yeh, that'll work...

>>The White House, caught off guard by the intensity of the conservative backlash to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, plans to try to refocus the debate over the next week onto her legal qualifications and away from issues such as her religion, senior presidential advisers said yesterday.<<

"Legal qualifications!"

:rofl:

mirthfully,
Bright

[Beetwasher]

18. Apparently, Rove Is Out Of The Picture These Days, And Card Is Running

the show. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahaha!

[expatriot]

19. Oh, pheew.... FR can breathe a say of relief..... it isn't Bush's fault.

"Usually closely aligned with the party's conservative base, the White House has been struggling to defuse the hostility to the Miers nomination among activists, lawyers and pundits. "I'm a little surprised that they came out of the box so cynically," White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said in a C-SPAN interview made public yesterday. Card, who was central to the Miers selection, said he accepted responsibility for any mishandling. "I am glad to carry the blame," he said."

Once again, Bush is faultless and his faultlessness exposes his real role in the White House... a marionette.

[daleo]

20. What legal qualifications?

She's never even judged the pies at the county fair.