I was wrong; so please join me in supporting Harriet Miers.

[Pukin Dog]

I agree with you.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

My insiders tell me, Harriet Miers is a homo-luvin baby-killin spawn of Satan. Maybe your insiders and mine ought together and hash it ought.

Bottom line is I trust Bush more than anyone with super secret inside information posting on a web forum, and that ain't saying much. Nice try though.

[quidnunc]

You have confirmed what I has read elsewhere in the blogsphere; that the other candidates who would otherwise have not been filibustered had things in their background that would have made them unconfirmable.

And by extension one might speculate that they might also have been forced from the bench altogether.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Interesting rant. I'm still waiting for this Repulican Senate to get a collective spine and stop acting like the minority party. I still am opposed to the Miers nomination.

Viva la Reagan revolution. I want him back, he had balls.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

No complaints from me for your reasonable decision to reconsider for the better good, and thanks for doing so.

This conservative infighting over Miers is wearing thin and only emboldens the rats.

[Kimmers]

Wow interesting followup's (personal attacks).....I do not know what is going on with that, however you made some valid points.....The more people speak out against her the more I am in favor of her....I agree with you regarding the weak republican senate..

[Pukin Dog]

You are assuming that Brown and Owens would have agreed to undertaking the process again.

[Petronski]

[JZoback]

I have tried in vain to make your exact point about how the Senate betrayed us, not Bush, which of course means we betrayed ourselves by electing gutless, spineless, cowards.

If the Senate will not back Bush, it is our fault

[pieces of time]

Welcome to the light.

[Larry Lucido]

This is technically a de-opus. If he leaves again, that would be a re-opus. Alternately leaving and returning is a rope-a-dopus.

[Mygirlsmom]

Dog, this has been in the back of my mind ever since Pres. Bush said Meiers "was the best person I could find." I was willing to bet that many or all of the people we would have wanted (JRB, Luttig, etc.) had their reasons for not wanting to go thru the hell that the confirmation process has turned into.

[Torie]

The Miers thing is just so interesting in so many ways, on so many levels. It will make a good book some day, one of those tales that is more arresting that a novel. The players are interesting, the maneuvering is interesting, the suspense is interesting, the chess game is interesting.

[bmwcyle]

AMEN

[Pukin Dog]

Hey, I probably earned the attacks. I just wish this issue had less to do with me. I will be more careful in the future.

[kidd]

Brown wouldn't. I've seen nothing that says Owens has been intimidated.

[Osage Orange]

Otherwise, you're just another RINO.

If Pukin Dog is a RINO....I'm an armadillo.

[Randy Larsen]

I'm with you PD, this verifies my own private suspicions.

The republican senate is chock full of spineless wimps!

[flashbunny]

No, I saw your vanity post announcing you're back after not really leaving. In news/activism, no less.

Seriously. I've been on dozens of boards. If I didn't like they way they were, I just left. I didn't post an opus. And I sure as heck didn't post an opus and then come back. And I sure as sure as sure as huck didn't post more than one opus and come back more than once.

It just strikes me as someone who is starved for attention.