>But this leaves unanswered the question of WHY. Miers may not be
>qualified to sit on the SC, but from all appearances she can be
>counted on to vote with 'Scalia and Thomas.on all the important
>issues. So why would folks like Coulter care? (Coulter's reasoning
>that the SC is where you put ivy league conservative lawyers is
>really strained). The fact that she was once a Democrat is also
>irrelevant as almost everyone 60 or older in the South and Texas
>used to be a Democrat. The only sensible explanation - largely
>speculative at this point- might be something larger than the Miers
>nomination itself - an attempt by some on the ideological right to
>take their distance of Bush (surely that is what Coulter and others,
>such as George Will, seem to be doing), but why? Are they trying to
>avoid being burned by an iminent scandal brewing in the White House
>or, more likely, are they sensing upcoming policy shifts in the
>Administratio! n not YET patently visible to the rest of us? Don't
>be optimistic as a "Grand coalition" of the GOP and Dem
>leadership probably will not be anything to cheer about.
Congressional Republicans are acting like they want to put some distance between themselves & Bush. Rats, sinking ship?
And if Fitzgerald has something up his sleeve, things could get mighty interesting.
Doug