So Trent "Foot in Mouth" Lott posits "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?" Hmmm, maybe her most important client, the President of the United States?!?!
Damn, Lottie, the man promised to build you a nice, new porch and all you can do is pimp-slap his personal attorney. Didn't losing your Senate Majority Leadership during "Operation Credit Strom" teach you anything about sound bites? Sheesh.
Still, I can't help thinking progressives lost their best shot at a moderate in this woman. We ultimately discovered very little about Miers, but her positions on Roe in particular were hardly set in stone.
Further, the granite tough united front of the GOP was fissuring to say the least. A few more weeks of of fringe Right bickering and sniping, followed by a week or so of confirmation hearings would have shined the spotlight on Dubya's eroding influence. As others have noted, it would have been a true watershed moment had Democrats supported the President's pick only to be scuttled by HIS OWN PARTY.
At least one good thing has come from this fiasco, the GOP has handed a litmus test right back into the hands of the Dems. Abortion isn't a deal-breaker, the hell you say! The Right blinked on this one.
Damn, Lottie, the man promised to build you a nice, new porch and all you can do is pimp-slap his personal attorney. Didn't losing your Senate Majority Leadership during "Operation Credit Strom" teach you anything about sound bites? Sheesh.
Still, I can't help thinking progressives lost their best shot at a moderate in this woman. We ultimately discovered very little about Miers, but her positions on Roe in particular were hardly set in stone.
Further, the granite tough united front of the GOP was fissuring to say the least. A few more weeks of of fringe Right bickering and sniping, followed by a week or so of confirmation hearings would have shined the spotlight on Dubya's eroding influence. As others have noted, it would have been a true watershed moment had Democrats supported the President's pick only to be scuttled by HIS OWN PARTY.
At least one good thing has come from this fiasco, the GOP has handed a litmus test right back into the hands of the Dems. Abortion isn't a deal-breaker, the hell you say! The Right blinked on this one.
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