[Cboldt]

Swifties -bump -

This one will have to settle for a little bit to see if sources come forward, buckle, independeent reports, etc.

But the 'bots can't say they weren't warned. I can't recall the first discussions of this - more than a week ago, I know that.

[TeleStraightShooter]

So why do you think the person {Miers} who suggested nominating the likes of Brown and Jones will nuke the (R)s a few years down the road on the SCOTUS?

[Map Kernow]

This one will have to settle for a little bit to see if sources come forward, buckle, independeent reports, etc.

As "eager" as the MSM supposedly is to "damage" the Bush Administration (which IMHO doesn't need any help in damaging itself), I really doubt that it will do any spadework on Miers. The scuttlebutt on the Left---e.g. a post by criminal defense attorney, TV talking head and fervent Clintonista Jeralyn Merritt on the Talk Left blog---is that Miers is "not too shabby" for a Republican nominee and that Dems should hold their fire. What with the Bush WH and its myrmidons actively surpressing even any discussion of Miers' qualifications, much less permitting any good faith investigation of her, it looks like this "unvetted" candidate may *never* get "vetted"---and that by design.