Ppl do sometimes promote someone just to get rid of them. It's not unheard of.
Not to the Supreme Court, FGS.
To stop Roosevelt's reforms, party bosses had him "kicked upstairs" to the vice presidency under William McKinley, thinking that in this position they could keep him under control.
Roosevelt's efforts helped insure victory for McKinley, who was assassinated one year into his second term in 1901, making "that damned cowboy," in the words of party boss Mark Hanna, President of the United States.
If Andy Card did in fact kick Miers upstairs, she might have a future as a Supreme Court Justice. - Tom
FUMU? I don't see it. To believe that, you'd have to believe that Card and co.have no respect for the Institutions of this country.