I'm not sure Miers would acquire a newfound interest in Mars, as she has apparently been a twenty year resident.
On the bright side, the SCOTUS swing to Wingnutia would definitely give a boost to the possibility of "Civil War II: This Time We Mean It".
Dickie didn't have his thinking cap on today when he stated in a news conference that America would most likely be fighting the War On Terra for decades. This cheerful tidbit is sure to ease the Plague-gloom in the White House.
Posted by tempus at October 5, 2005 10:23 PMI think Miers' name will be withdrawn from contention, but not until the fight over her nomination acts as a catalyst to raise President Bush's approval numbers among his base. I think this is a maneuver to get the president some political capital before he announces his real nominee.
What remains to be seen is just how this will be accomplished. I just can't imagine that even the Bush White House could be this stupid.
Posted by Teresa Valdez Klein at October 5, 2005 10:45 PMHere's something interesting. Bush mentioned Exodus Ministries when introducing Miers, a group that deals with homosexuals, phedophiles, transvestites, transsexuals, and sexual abuse. Guess who's a former board member? Perhaps Miers conversion to Christianity was related to Exodus Ministries. Would that not be a kick in the pants for the far-right intolerant GOP followers.
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2172806_1?&channel=LP#affiliations
http://exodus.to/ministry_pages/ministry-tx.shtml
Posted by Judith at October 5, 2005 11:47 PMissue reproductive rights/abortion
issue_other civil rights
position According to Miers' friends, she was pro-choice when a young woman, but later changed her mind as a result of a Christian experience of some kind. The slightly feminist tinge to her credentials is a plus, but she is quite definitely anti-abortion. She ran for city council in 1989 as a moderate, but struggled during her interview with the lesbian/gay coalition…When pressed, she said she did believe one should be able to legally discriminate against gays, and it is the recollection of two of the organization's officers that the response involved her religious beliefs. Miers' church states on its website that it believes in biblical inerrancy, full immersion baptism, original sin and salvation dependent entirely upon accepting Jesus Christ. Everyone else is going to hell.
source Molly Ivins column
Why would Miers be on the Board at Exodus at one point in her life and then be for discrimination against Gays?
Posted by Judith at October 5, 2005 11:56 PMIt's a different Exodus Ministries - the one Miers worked with helps prisoners. Don't have the link but I think Scott McClellan addressed in in a briefing.
Posted by joejoejoe at October 6, 2005 01:44 AMa born again republican..like bush..a closer friend to him..i am sure in my heart that she has promised to try and overturn roe vs. wade....which by the way when bush was asked his opinion on roe vs. wade..he responded it really didn't matter to him as long as the people had left new orleans....can you imagine that there is a person who might get a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land and who thinks that gw bush is the most brilliant man she ever met....
Posted by dennis at October 6, 2005 02:44 AMJoejoejoe, sound like a spin by Bush.
Posted by Judith at October 6, 2005 05:25 AMBush is a spineless, eager to please cypher. You may be spot on here, with a few heavyweights dictating to Bush this just will not stand. White House security may be too strict for a horse's head making its way to his bed but I'm sure he's otherwise gotten the message.
Posted by steve duncan at October 6, 2005 05:57 AMThe Exodus Ministry thing was simply another mealy mouthed fuck up by Bush.
She did indeed work for the Exodus Prision Ministry which seeks to help prisioners being released from incarceration readjust to life outside.
Again, just another Bush snafu.
Posted by snark at October 6, 2005 05:58 AMTurning from pro-choice when young to having a conversion experience to me sounds like she may very well have had an abortion herself. In years of working on this issue, my observation is that the people who become rabidly anti-choice are the people who are riddled with guilt and are seeking to repent and as their penance actively work to prevent others from going through what they have.
Just guesssing.
Posted by RevDeb at October 6, 2005 06:16 AMStrng hw th rghts dstngshd by th fndrs t mpwr th ppl t d gd hv vlvd nt tdy's grtsq rghts t prctc vl nhndrd.
[Editor: ignore=off]judith, joejoejoe isn't spinning. there is a ex-con support group in dallas called exodus ministries.
Posted by benjoya at October 6, 2005 06:48 AMStrange how the rights distinguished by the founders to empower the people to do good have evolved into today's grotesque rights to practice evil unhindered.
Don't blame us.
We didn't re-elect the evil one.
Posted by Boneheadito at October 6, 2005 06:54 AMBush won't admit a mistake, so if Miers leaves, she'll make up an excuse.
Posted by T2 at October 6, 2005 09:11 AMEriposte:
Does this mean the republicans will ask for a do-over?
Posted by Not Tom Delay at October 6, 2005 02:26 PMOkay, she withdraws, then Bush grandslams a real winger, in your face, who might get filibustered, but who will be confirmed because after all they still own congress, don't they? Meanwhile the arctic ice is melting, the avians fluing, Iraq quagging, SUVs sagging, dollar dropping, inflation flatulating, you get the drift, the sky be fallin
word.
out.