Although she probably would not have won the seat anyway, I'm disappointed Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court. From a liberal perspective, she's probably the most left wing candidate we could have hoped for. Bush will probably go with a well more conservative candidate for his next nomination. Even though she lacked any kind of qualification, Miers was central enough, politically, that Democrats may have voted her in based on the fact that if she didn't get the seat, the next nominee would certainly be far more right wing.
When the President states that "Harriet Miers' decision demonstrates her deep respect for this essential aspect of the constitutional separation of powers;" why didn't he understand this from the beginning, it was his decision to put her in that position...idiot. Ed Gillespie, later in the article, says "She, I think, rightly and in a principled manner came to the conclusion that there was about to be a conflict between her role as nominee and the principal she's espoused as White House counsel and counsel to the president." Is it just me or aren't these things that should have crossed the President's mind before he nominated her; these seem like pretty basic reasons for not nominating her. In conclusion, our President is an incompetent moron.
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