Harriet Miers Withdraws

Well, Harriet Miers, President Bush's curious pick to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, withdrew her nomination today after being beaten senseless by the right wing. I'm split on this; as a liberal, I would have loved seeing the Republians continue to beat each other up over the nomination. Still, this shows that Bush cows to the Evangelical right and cannot be trusted by modersate Republicans. Either way, it'll be interesting to see who he nominates now.

What's really important is that people see just how hypocritical the right is. John Roberts, they said, deserved a fair and speedy hearing. Then they go and stop Miers from even getting to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's just one example.

I'm also very excited to see what indictments special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will hand down. I'm 99.9% sure that I. Lewis Libby will be indicted, but I'm really hoping that Karl Rove gets an indictment, as well. That'll not only crush the Bush administration, it will stop him from planning the next big wave from the right.

Rove will probably get busted for indictment if anything, and already the right wing spin machine is churning. They've already put out press releases and talking points saying that perjury is not a crime, and that indictments should only come for "real crimes", like what Libby will be gotten for, which is giving away the identity of a federal undercover agent. Of course, let's look back at the whole Clinton perjury IMPEACHMENT. Listen to what they were saying then, and it's just another example of their hypocrisy.