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October 27, 2005

Miers Withdraws!

More [Added By Ace]: Captains Quarters responds to Hugh Hewitt's argument that, by tanking this nomination, conservatives have helped liberals defeat future nominees.

Hewitt's argument is that we blocked her from having a full up or down vote on the Senate floor. So why, he asks, shouldn't liberals do so for the next nominee?

Well, first of all, as a technical matter, Miers withdrew her nomination. If the liberals can provoke the next nominee into withdrawing his or her nomination, then I guess they will have won that battle, though I don't see that as likely, and I don't see such an effort as being helped much by the Miers episode.

More importantly, though: liberals will fight like cats and dogs to oppose any strong conservative nominee. They would have before; they will in the future. They always will. Which is why it so galled me that Bush gave up. Why is it always we who are expected to give in and give up?

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