The Slow Death Of The Meirs Nomination
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Supreme CourtYou do it to yourself, you do
And that’s what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself
Just you and no one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
-From Radiohead’s song ‘Just’.
John Fund writes in the Opinion Journal that the White House is threatening conservatives who break ranks on the Meirs nomination:
Many longtime supporters of President Bush have been startled to get phone calls from allies of the president strongly implying that a failure to support Ms. Miers will be unhealthy to their political future. “The message in Texas is, if you aren’t for this nominee, you are against the president,” one conservative leader in that state told me. The pressure has led to more resentment than results.Similar pressure has been applied in New Hampshire, site of the nation’s first presidential primary in 2008. Newsweek has reported that “when George W. Bush’s political team wanted to send ambitious Republican senators a firm message about Harriet Miers (crude summary: ‘Lay off her if you ever want our help’),” they chose loyal Bush ally and former state attorney general Tom Rath to deliver it. Plans were even launched to confront Virginia’s Sen. George Allen, a likely 2008 candidate for president, and demand he sign a pro-Miers pledge. Luckily, the local Bush forces were warned off such a move at the last minute.
Fund’s prediction…
I believe it is almost inevitable that Ms. Miers will withdraw or be defeated. Should that happen, it is important President Bush understand how it really happened. While he acted out of sincerity, the nomination was quickly perceived by many as merely a means to a desired end: getting another vote for his views on the court. While some conservatives backed her because they honestly believed she would rule independently with an understanding of the limited role of judges envisioned by the Founders, that message was drowned out by accusations of cronyism and mediocrity.
Take the time and read the whole thing. Fund does a good job of breaking down the timeline and how I feel that Bush has nobody to blame but himself.
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October 24th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Bush has nobody to blame but usefull idiots like Fund. The left is all atwitter over conservatives giving Bush a hard time. Let Republicans vote Miers down. Bush should then appoint Janice Rogers Brown who will be successfully filibustered bacause of the RINO’s in the McCain mutany.
Then what will the useful idiots do?
April 20th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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