harriet miers
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- kyl30
rip
(rest in piss)
- CyBrainX0
Ok, ladies, put down your coathangers for a little while longer.
Can someone find me that sniper I've been asking for?
- unclesize0
Only problem with losing this little lap dog, is that the devil is yet to come. Just wait for the next appointment, one the far right can get behind.
- pavlovs_dog0
agian, the best we can hope for is some one old that will die (relatively) quickly.
- pancakeweb0
Today is a good day. I'm so glad that this shit nominee is gone. Now we can get a true conservative in the seat and make you squirm all the more.
- mg330
I was 110% certain this would happen, and I am thrilled and smiling.
Ditto - good riddance you unqualified crony.
- madirish0
can anyone say 4th District comin' round again?
i am happy and sad at the same time...
- Mimio0
Yep, either Karen Williams or Consuelo Callahan.
- mrdobolina0
tom delay
- prodigalslacker0
tom delay
mrdobolina
(Oct 27 05, 11:27ahhaahahhaahhahahaha
- pancakeweb0
Good choices, Mimio.
- IRNlun60
yeah if that was bush's best choice wait 'til second best.
- cruz_azul0
honostly if she got in it would not effect anyone , just a bunch of haters ...not that i give a chet about her ... politics pfffffffffffft
- mrdobolina0
cruz, and what if everyone thought that way?
On an unrelated note, we ran this good news today.
PREVAILING WAGE REINSTATED ON KATRINA CONTRACTS
By DAVID HAMMER
Associated Press WriterWashington - The Bush administration will reinstate rules requiring that companies awarded federal contracts for Hurricane Katrina pay prevailing wages, usually an amount close to the pay scales in local union contracts.
The White House promised to restore the 74-year-old Davis-Bacon prevailing wage protection on Nov. 8, following a meeting between chief of staff Andrew Card and a caucus of pro-labor Republicans.
Democrats and the moderate Republican group both claimed their pressure caused President Bush to reconsider his open-ended suspension of Davis-Bacon starting Sept. 8 in hurricane-affected areas.
The Republican group originally sent a letter to the White House in September arguing that suspension of the wage law only leads to shoddy workmanship, reduces federal oversight and allows workers outside the region to undercut the local market.
Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, who founded the pro-labor caucus with Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey earlier this year, said the Bush administration was not receptive to the initial letter. But the White House eventually acknowledged the suspension of the wage law was not saving the government money on billions of dollars in Katrina contracts, he said.
LaTourette said the Republican group suggested Nov. 8 as a reinstatement date because it was 60 days from the original suspension. He said he hoped companies wouldn’t abuse the remaining days to underpay workers.Administration’s argument
The administration contended the Davis-Bacon suspension would reduce rebuilding costs and thus benefit local residents by stretching financial resources, but unions and other critics said it would result in lower pay for workers. Unlike the three previous suspensions of Davis-Bacon since 1931, Bush left the suspension open-ended.
Democrats, like Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said that was an attempt by conservative Republicans to wipe out Davis-Bacon altogether. Miller said Democrats’ legislative proposals combined with the Republican group to force the Bush administration’s hand.
The Bush administration demurred. “It was always intended for it to be temporary,” said Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman.
Sen. Byron Dorgon, D-North Dakota, and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said a Democratic Policy Committee hearing they held earlier this month had an impact by highlighting abuses of the wage-law suspension. In some cases, contractors were hiring undocumented workers, they said.
“The credit goes to anybody and everybody who understood this was bad public policy,” Dorgon said.
Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., said the White House responded to the caucus “in part as a function of our party affiliation.” LaTourette also drew a line Wednesday, urging his colleagues to vote against Miller’s proposal if it comes to a vote before Nov. 8 “because we’ve already accomplished the goal.”
Unions praised the Republican group Wednesday and said workers across the country were invested in the fate of Gulf Coast workers.
“This was a blow on working people everywhere,” said Anthony Libertore of the Construction, Heavy, Highway and Utilities local union in Cleveland. “To lose their homes and now to lose their wages is unacceptable.”
Raymond Poupore, executive director of the National Heavy & Highway Alliance, said the Republican group reached out to unions to build a case for restoring the wage protections.
- ukit0
i think bush realized she would be needed in her current job.
- mrdobolina0
If you think about it, if Bush ever did go before the supreme court for anything, she would have had to recuse herself because she is too close to the issues.
- ukit0
i think the bottom line is he realized he needed his base, and the hard core conservative commentators especially, behind him as indictments likely are announced tomorrow. He's giving them the Miers resignation in exchange for a more spirited defense once the real problems begin.
- mrdobolina0
the entire republican party is under investigation right now. I was watching fox news (masochism) the other night and they have all these pundits on blaming liberal smear tactics for all of their problems.
It's like, the republicans own everything and have for the past 5 years. PLEASE stop making liberals the fucking scapegoat for all of the problems.
- brozilla0
she was already the bottom of the barrel. As I understand it, there were some very qulaified, albiet still conservative, mentions and they all turned it down. That's how bushie ended up with mier.
its all political strategy anyway. bushie asked her to step aside because he wanted to pick his battles. he's got one hell of a shit storm coming up with the death toll in iraq, (war in iraq for that matter), Saddam trial (that's going to get ugly for sure - were are the WMD's?), CIA leaks,...etc., ect. He knew he better get more conservatives on his side to support him on these issues.
- pavlovs_dog0
"true conservative"
wtf ever with the simple mindedness in the u.s. ...she would have fallen right in line.
* sharpens coat hanger in anticipation of the next nominee*