Wow . . . Miers has withdrawn

President Bush today "reluctantly accepted" Harriet Miers' withdrawal from her nomination to the Supreme Court, according to a statement from the White House. In the statement, Miers said her nomination presented a "burden for the White House." Read here.

Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised; it was obvious the nomination was in major trouble. Not quite clear what happened. Were Rove and Cheney too distracted so that she didn't get vetted properly? The White House thought to put their chips on a "stealth candidate," not realizing how fiercely the conservatives believed "You owe us, buddy." Did they not know how vapid she came across?"

What will they do now? With the indictments looming, I'm not sure that Bush thinks he can risk the brangle he'd get if he nominated a lightning rod like Owens or Brown (well, if the spineless Democrats we've been seeing gave him one. Would the Democrats roll over completely as they have been doing for the past several years, or perhaps, smelling blood in the water, would they finally put up a fight?) Is the torture memo too controversial to preclude nominating Gonzales? (Edited to add: Oh. Duh. Salon points out the nature of Miers' withdrawal makes it impossible to nominate Gonzales. His nomination would pose the exact same "document problem" that Miers' supposedly did. So Gonzales is presumably out, too.)

We'll watch the soap opera and see. Meanwhile, I look forward to seeing the indictments come down from Fitzgerald's investigations . . .

Harriet Miers again

All right, this gave me the best laugh I've had all day (and I really needed one). Gacked from Wonkette: The original text of Harriet Miers resignation letter. REVEALED! Here at Flak Magazine.

What would we be doing meme?

Since I'm trying to take my mind off things tonight, I'm spamming LJ and here's a meme. Gacked from aome:

If you and I were alone in a room right now, what would we be doing? To make it interesting, POST ANONYMOUSLY. [Comment, then post this in your LJ, and see what people on your Flist want to do with you.]

Was this a bad idea? Hmm. We'll see