Allies
By PoliPundit ~ October 18th, 2005 @ 10:39 am
In the fight over the Miers nomination, the White House has some surprising allies:
The White House has some quiet allies in this fight, but they’re not the sort it wants. A number of Democrats I’ve talked to say that their own criticism of Miers has been muted, not just because they don’t want to interrupt a budding GOP civil war, but because they’d prefer a potentially moderate woman with soft qualifications to another committed, persuasive conservative. “Reid is mindful that if she goes down to defeat, something far uglier for us might come down the pike,” said a senior Senate Democratic staffer of the Senate minority leader.The quieter liberals are, of course, the more suspicious conservatives become. So, in the stage management planned for the next weeks, the White House might want to address this issue. In addition to tutoring the public on what Harriet knows, they might want to do something to make Ted Kennedy really mad.
UPDATE: This should make Teddy mad. But it doesn’t change my mind. I’ve said all along that Miers would be anti-Roe, but very squishy on everything else.
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