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First, is that all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote in the affirmative, and second that the GOP Senators will vote to affirm.

The last point is no "slam dunk."

Uh, I'd bet $100 that every GOP Senator will vote for Meirs.

Do not be so sure ... A developing, but not surprising, story worth following.

Posted by Crackingham On 10/06/2005 1:17:35 AM PDT · 71 replies · 750+ views

LA Times ^ | 10/6/5 | Maura Reynolds and Tom Hamburger President Bush faced a growing Republican backlash Wednesday over the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, with several GOP senators threatening to oppose her confirmation and top conservative activists questioning her qualifications during a tense confrontation with White House advisors. In an effort to quell the discontent, administration aides and allies were dispatched to plead with lawmakers and party activists to give Miers — a longtime Bush friend and lawyer — a chance to prove herself. But on Capitol Hill, some GOP senators made it clear that they were not now in Miers' corner. And at a weekly...