Harriet Miers Watch: Bush Confident of Confirmation

Crystal Camacho, with her mouth covered in red tape with the words ‘Life’, protests with other members of ‘Bound4Life’, an anti-abortion group, in front of the Supreme Court, rear, in Washington Friday, Oct. 7, 2005. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ footprints on contentious social issues suggest a moderate position on gay rights, an interest in advancing women and minorities and sympathy for anti-abortion efforts.

The ASSociated Press has Bush Predicts Miers Will Be Confirmed.

President Bush predicted Friday that the Senate would confirm Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, even as a Republican senator said she had much work left to ensure that outcome. A former Republican nominee called her nomination “a disaster.”

he displeasure from some on the right with Miers — they cite lack of experience or any record clearly identifying her as a strong conservative — has led to calls for the president to withdraw her nomination.

Asked about those suggestions, Bush did not answer directly. He instead suggested that withdrawal wouldn’t be necessary, voicing confidence that she would be confirmed.

“She is going to be on the bench. She’ll be confirmed,” Bush told reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.

Among conservatives, William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue called for Bush to withdraw the Miers nomination. Former federal judge Robert Bork — whose nomination to the Supreme Court the Senate rejected in 1987 — described the choice of Miers as “a disaster on every level.”

OK…… Tantrum by the RIGHT must end.

Harriet Miers may not be Flap’s first choice or the first choice of others but……..

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