Miers withdraw - bets, anyone?

[Timexwatch]

I'll give you three. I think if she makes it you deserve them.

[Ramo]

Schumer claimed that Miers doesn't have the votes to make it through Judiciary or the full Senate as of now...

[DanS]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
I'll give you three. I think if she makes it you deserve them.

OK. What they hey. 3 beers to 1. You win some bets and you lose others.

I just think Bush is sometimes such a stubborn cuss (a positive trait for a pol) that he'll try to ram it through. Most GOP senators will find it tough to vote against her.

[Theben]

Originally posted by DanS

I'm having trouble collecting on one of those at the moment, so I think I'll pass.

He's waiting for you to pick an avatar.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The most recent "War Room" entry in Salon is interesting...

Is Miers on her way out?

When George W. Bush was asked this morning about a report that the White House is thinking through contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination, he responded with what we thought was a non sequitur: Rather than confirming or denying the report, the president said that he will refuse to release documents reflecting the advice Miers has given him as a member of his White House staff.

It wasn't an answer to the question he was asked, but -- as a War Room reader notes -- maybe it wasn't quite the non sequitur we thought it was, either. In a column last week, Charles Krauthammer laid out a face-saving exit strategy for the White House: Senators demand documents from Miers' White House tenure; the president refuses to turn over the documents on executive privilege or attorney-client privilege grounds; the senators say that, in light of her scant record elsewhere, they can't consider Miers' nomination without seeing her White House documents; Miers, faced with an irreconcilable conflict between the Senate and the president, puts the good of the nation above her own desires and graciously withdraws her nomination.

Far-fetched? Maybe, but it seems to be working so far:

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback called on Bush to turn over documents related to Miers' White House work. "Providing this type of information from the White House is almost a risk they assume when you nominate a candidate just from inside the White House," he said. "A lot of the things she worked in the White House are on their way up to the Supreme Court. I think it's totally legitimate to say, 'What did you work on? If that issue comes before the Supreme Court, what would you do?'"

At his Cabinet meeting this morning, the president all but blurted out that he wouldn't and couldn't turn over such documents without jeopardizing the ability of future presidents to hear frank advice and "to make sound decisions."

And like clockwork, the mainstream press is now reporting that a "document snag" is threatening to "scuttle" Miers' nomination. Maybe this is all just coincidence. Maybe Krauthammer was tipped off to a plan already in the works. Or maybe, with Karl Rove distracted by other matters, the president is taking advice from wherever he can find it.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/ (requires sitting through an ad)

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Theben


He's waiting for you to pick an avatar.

I've actually been waiting since last Friday. Tomorrow I will consider starting the 30 day clock. I think 5 days is a reasonable period of time to wait for him to make a choice.

[Adam Smith]

Meyers withdraws.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9837151/

Looks like you're buying Dan.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It was only a matter of time. She was so amazingly unqualified.

[SpencerH]

Bring back Bork!

[Ninot]

My American History teacher is gonna be such an ass about this.

He predicted just last night that Miers was going to withdraw any minute.

[Winston]

Well done.

I think I'll take any bets that the next nominee will be either Gonzales or Luttig.

[OzzyKP]

Naw, probably not Gonzales. It was the conservatives that killed this nominee, Bush has to throw a hardliner their way.

[Timexwatch]

I hope not Gonazles. That would be a minor-league Miers all over again. How hard it it to nominate someone who is immensely qualified and has somewhat of a track record and proven credentials?

[OzzyKP]

And considering Luttig just posted this on his blog, I'm guessing he's out too:

http://jmluttig.blogspot.com/2005/10/lemme-spell-it-out-for-you-idiot.html

LEMME SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU: I.D.I.O.T.

The President of the United States just proved beyond a shadow of an unreasonable doubt that he's the most moronic organism in the history of life on earth.

[DinoDoc]

It won't be Gonzales. Bush already peaved his base with Miers and conservatives already think of it as Spanish for Souter. Besides it really can't be that hard to find someone like Roberts (qualified and conservative).