Matt Drudge is reporting on his radio program that Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family may be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Harriet Miers’ confirmation hearings.

And this is confirmed by the Associated Press here.

On Wednesday Dr. Dobson:

“This is a good woman who will do the right thing,” Dobson told his radio audience Wednesday, telling them that “the blood of those babies who will die will be on my hands” if he is wrong.

Click here to listen to Dr. James Dobson’s radio program in which he discusses Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court.

The Rev. Ted Haggard, a Colorado Springs pastor whose growing national prominence has earned him a place on the White House phone tree, was not concerned about the early divisions among social conservatives over the nomination.

“Everybody’s fine,” said Haggard, pastor of New Life Church and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group of churches and denominations representing more than 30 million people. “This is just part of the process. It’s actually good positioning because it confuses the liberals.”

Haggard said he, like Dobson, received a phone call from the White House before Miers’ nomination. Like Dobson, Haggard isn’t talking about the conversation.

While Haggard said he would not pass judgment on Miers until after the nomination hearings, he gave a strong indication of his thinking: “If the president and Dr. Dobson say she’s a good woman for the position,” Haggard said, “odds are she is.”

Senators purportedly want to learn what was said to Dobson regarding the Pro-Life and abortion views of Harriet Miers by White House operatives.

Stay tuned…..

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One in, one to go: In July, White House counsel Harriet Miers escorted Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., right, to a meeting with President Bush. Conservatives, many of whom were lukewarm about Roberts, have split over Bush’s choice of Miers to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.

Captain Ed in the Washington Post has How Harriet Unleashed a Storm on the Right.

Well, he’s finally done it. By nominating White House lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George Bush has managed to accomplish what Al Gore, John Kerry, Tom Daschle and any number of Democratic heavyweights have been unable to do: He has cracked the Republican monolith. Split his own party activists. And how.

The president’s surprise pick to replace Sandra Day O’Connor has ignited a massive debate among his former loyalists, especially in the blogosphere, where I spend a fair amount of time. Wails of betrayal are clashing with assurances of the president’s brilliant strategic thinking. Meanwhile, the heavyweights of punditry drop columns like artillery shells into what already may be a conservative civil war.

And to think that Harriet Miers with a wink and a nod from President Bush and James Dobson was supposed to be a STEALTH EVANGELICAL CANDIDATE

Hugh Hewitt and the The Loyalist Army have it RIGHT.

Michelle Malkin and the The Rebel Alliance have it WRONG.

And since Harriet Miers will be a SUCCESSFUL EVANGELICAL STEALTH CANDIDATE we will have to wait (for validation or I told you so) until after she is sitting on the bench.

Flap recommends that the Eastern intellectual (?) and elitist RIGHT chill out.

Why are you carrying Leahy’s and Biden’s bags?

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Supreme Court Justice nominee Harriet Miers, left, walks with her brother Jeb Miers, right, and sister-in-law Liz Lang-Miers, center, on their way to church services at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Specter to Question Miers’ Qualifications.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has said he is confident Miers opposes abortion, based on conversations he has had with the White House.

So, now we hear from Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Will the Leftie Senators be far behind?

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he plans to vigorously question Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers about her qualifications because she has not proved to him she can handle the weighty issues that come before the high court.

“I think she may well turn out to be the best qualified once we give her a chance to be heard,” Specter said on ABC’s “This Week.” “But when you deal in constitutional law, you’re dealing in some very esoteric, complicated subjects that require a great deal of background.”

“The jurisprudence is very complicated, and I will be pressing her very hard on these issues,” he said.

Sounds patronizingly SEXIST to Flap. But, will any women’s groups say so?

NO!

Specter said he would ask during the hearings whether Miers had privately given assurances to conservatives that she would overturnRoe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that gave women a constitutional right to an abortion.

Definitely a STEALTH candidate.

Flap having been there and done that….. we will have to take the President’s word and wait.

But, her long time friend, Judge Hecht has a different take, ‘Pro-life’ Miers to be unbiased on US court -ally.

“She is pro-life, and she has been for 25 years,” Nathan Hecht, a Texas Supreme Court justice and Miers’ longtime friend, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Asked how Miers, with that view, could conceivably vote to uphold the
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to abortion, Hecht said, “legal issues and personal issues are just two different things. Judges do it all the time.”

“In fact, a judge is going to take an oath that says I’m going to judge rightly in cases, which means that you have to set aside your personal views in deciding the case,” he said.

So, is Harriet Miers trying to have her cake and eat it too? This reminds flap of Mario Cuomo explaining his HYPOCRITICAL views on abortion while remaining a Catholic.

Stay tuned for a brutal Senate confirmation.

Hugh Hewitt answers some conservative critics of Harriet Miers, What Do The Critics of the Miers Nomination Want?

But, will these arguments be enough to call off the RIGHT dogs?

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