Miers Withdraws
As Harriet Miers withdraws back into the relative oblivion of her job as White House Counsel, she becomes only the 10th U. S. Supreme Court nominee in history to withdraw from the confirmation process. By all appearances, she was given a failure grade before even taking the test. But appearances can be deceiving.
The Reactionary Right largely labeled her a failure, because she did not meet their litmus test of
being a sure vote against Roe, gays, poor people and separation of church and state. Democrats and moderate Republicans thought she should be given a chance to take the real test - appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bush sent the message to the Reactionaries that he knew Harriet’s heart and she was OK. Bush also said Harriet was the most qualified person in America to sit on the Court and she would show it at the hearings. Then this incompetent coward showed his true colors by backing down from the Reactionaries and pulling the rug out from under Harriet by either making or letting her withdraw, and trying to cast blame for the withdrawal on the bipartisan request of the Judiciary Committee for information on her service at the White House.
I was looking forward to the Miers hearings, so I could judge for myself how well I thought Miers did on the true test. Now we will have to wait for a new test taker to be nominated.
posted by Tom Blake | 5:06 PM
2 Comments:
I was never clear how I felt about Miers. My first reaction was negative. But when Bush's right wing supporters, I started to be drawn to her. Partly it was a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of reaction. But I was also drawn to the mystery of what she stood for. Maybe she would have surprised George and the other Republicans. As Tom says, now we'll never know. And now we have a pedigreed right winger as a nominee.
What will the Democrats do? My prediction: a lot of fussing and fuming, but no real opposition leadership.
John from Phoenix
The Miers hearing would have been interesting to learn about her as a new character. Judge Alito is a known characterwho is very conservative. His intellectual qualifications are strong, so the issue will be whether as a Justice he is likely to serve his political ideology more than serve the law. I am studying that and hope to write on it soon.
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