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[inahandbasket]

Meirs just withdrew herself!
(link)

*snide editorial comments withheld*

Comments

[illicitbacon.livejournal.com]

Do we get to find out who the real nominee is now?

[komos.livejournal.com]

She did have "sacrificial lamb" written across her forehead...

[inahandbasket]

photoshop senses tingling...

[komos.livejournal.com]

I wonder if God instructed Dubya to go through with it.

Oh that God... such a joker.

[inahandbasket]

he's a regular cut-up.

Freaks me out that dubbya thinks God talks to him.
Wonder what he's hearing...
*shudders*

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

on the one hand, she was wholly unqualified and the idea of a stealth candidate for the supreme court is very unsettling

on the other hand, I feel kinda sorry for her and the way she was just raked across the coals. I mean, couldn't people have waited for her to have a hearing and then get voted down on her merits?

[inahandbasket]

meh.
In all honesty, I think that she should have refused the nomination.

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's a lawyer in America who would turn down a nomination to the supreme court, no matter how unqualified they felt they were.

[inahandbasket]

touche

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

I'm qualified to be on the Supreme Court:

I can read. The constitution is in writing.

Though I think that the "able to read the constitution" part hasn't been enhforced very heavily in the past few decades, though.

"The people" = "the military"

"Public" = "private"

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

yes, you meet the minimum stated qualifications in the constitution, thankfully those who make the nominations and vote on appointments are more discerning than that

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that they are.

I mean, look at the decisions they make.