{"id":5651,"date":"2005-10-27T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5651.html"},"modified":"2005-10-27T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:34:08","slug":"harriet-we-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/harriet-we-hardly-knew-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet, we hardly knew ye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debacle that was the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination has come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/27\/miers.nominations\/index.html\">a merciful end<\/a>. Miers withdrew her nomination this morning and the president accepted it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her letter to the president, Miers said she was &#8220;concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and its staff and it is not in the best interest of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House &#8212; disclosures that would undermine a president&#8217;s ability to receive candid counsel,&#8221; Bush said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harriet Miers&#8217; decision demonstrates her deep respect for this essential aspect of the constitutional separation of powers &#8212; and confirms my deep respect and admiration for her.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like they ended up going with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/20\/AR2005102001635.html\">Krauthammer Scenario<\/a> after all &#8212; Miers had to bow out, not because she&#8217;s an unqualified crony with a questionable background, but because of a deeply held belief in protecting White House documents.<\/p>\n<p>Sure. That&#8217;s what it was. Whatever you say.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Here are links to Miers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/27\/AR2005102700680.html\">withdrawal letter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/27\/AR2005102700554.html\">Bush&#8217;s statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debacle that was the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination has come to a merciful end. Miers withdrew her nomination this morning and the president accepted it. In her letter to the president, Miers said she was &#8220;concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and its staff and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}