QuagMeir No More

[digitaldiscipline]

How could she have done anything else, given how completely baseless and without merit her nomination was in the first place?

At least she showed a modicum of class [which is still orders of magnitude beyond what the rest of the administration has displayed thus far] . . . though she could have shown more by withdrawing before it was patently obvious she wasn't remotely the right person for the job, or declining the nomination altogether.

"Mister President, with all due respect, I am honored by the nomination, but what the blue bleeding fuck are you smoking?"

[courtesy of ross_winn - http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/27/miers.nominations/index.html ]

ETA: The muted jubilation from this corner is primarily to do with the fact that the process worked to thwart a poor choice for candidate from being forced down the country's throat.

Whether or it was the fact that Miers was so recalcitrant when providing documentation that would have exposed the contempt for the law that pervades the Bush administration (back to his time as TX governor, and let's not forget that HM probably has the skinny on how he dodged and weaved around his NG service) that it prevented her from giving any (much less a straight) answer to any questions, or the fundamentalists' displeasure over their perception that she'd actually uphold a persons' rights insofar as their own body (vis a vis abortion). . . . in this case, the ends justify the means.

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[ex-requiella957.livejournal.com]

It's common knowledge that much opposition to her nomination came from her own party. My only hope is that the democrats will grow some balls and show no restraint in opposing the next (what's sure to be) ultra conservative nomination. Stall, people, stall.