White House stands by Miers

[sabra]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/24/miers.ap/

White House stands by Miers

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Monday that President Bush is confident Harriet Miers will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, even though a Democrat on the Senate panel that will hold hearings on her nomination said she doesn't have the votes.

Republicans countered that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, cannot predict how the GOP-controlled Senate will decide Miers' fate. Many Republicans have yet to commit to approve President Bush's second nominee to the high court.

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush is committed to sticking with Miers until the Senate vote.

"He's confident that she will be confirmed because as senators come to know her like the president knows her, we're confident that they will recognize she will make an outstanding Supreme Court justice," McClellan said.

[Kierkegaard]

1. "...as senators come to know her like the president knows her..."

Did we learn nothing from the Monica Lewinski incident???

[liberal N proud]

5. Just exactly how does the president know her?

Is it in a Monica kind of way?

[Kierkegaard]

11. I have no knowledge of that, but

felt the insinuation was worth posting in light of her obvious fawning over the simian king.

[soleft]

2. heard this am that her rehearsals for hearing were not going well

This is going to be painful watch - in a good kind of way

[whatever4]

3. They said that TODAY?

Is there no end to this insanity?

The phrase, "...know her like the president knows her" has been repeated over and over. And over.

Sick.

[Bob3]

4. this statement is normally the big wet sloppy kiss o' death

As we will discover a few days from now when Miers decides "for the sake of unity" to withdraw her name saying she wants to spend more time with her family "and to go back to what I do best brown nosing the president."

[afdip]

12. to slip into the vernacular,

i'd call it the kiss before the fuck.

[louis-t]

6. * stubbornness has become a ball and chain.

He can't back down on her now. It would make him look weaker than he already is. If he hasn't started 'talking to the portraits' yet, he will be soon.

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Junior still can't think of a mistake he's made...

Even if that reporter had given him the question in advance, as Junior mused at the time, he still wouldn't have been able to come up with one.

It's the worst form of primitive ubermasculine horse shit: never back down and never admit a mistake.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. "Senate vote"? Good chance not even voted out of Committee.

[NYC Liberal]

9. So what qualifications does she have, other than "he knows her"?

I know a lot of people too...doesn't mean they should be on the SCOTUS.

[grytpype]

10. This Miers thing will make for some nice comic relief...

... a little sideshow for when you get tired of following the Fitzmas Fallout.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. Good. She'll be the albatross around *bush's neck

that brings him crashing down. Glad he's being his typical idiotic self.

[Danmel]

14. You'd think they'd be embarrassed by now

But of course they have no shame.

This is going to be like watching a car wreck- you know you shouldn't look, but you just can't help it.

A d for Pete's sake, can she change either the spelling or pronunciation of her name? It looks like a typographical error. (Remember Jerry terHorst?)

[NV Whino]

15. laugh of the day

"... as senators come to know her like the president knows her...,"

[gratuitous]

16. Yep, standing by Miers!

He's steely-eyed. He's resolute. He's President Bush!

Just today in the Boregonian there was a letter extolling Miss Miers and her ethereal qualifications, chief of which was that she wasn't part of the "old boys' network" of judges, and therefore wouldn't be a judicial activist, and if the American people really wanted someone outside of elitist circles to sit on the Supreme Court, then Miss Miers was the choice.

Drink deeply of the Kool-Aid, close your eyes, and trust to the ineffable wisdom of George W. Bush to see you through these trying times, and ignore the fact that times are trying mostly due to the ineffable wisdom of George W. Bush.