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To: LindyBill who wrote (480342)	4/3/2012 1:50:23 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 793917

Where would we be now, if Uncle George had been successful in giving us Aunt Harriet? The nomination almost immediately drew criticism, virtually all of it from within the President's own party: David Frum castigated an "unforced error", [1] and Robert Borkdenounced it a "disaster" and "a slap in the face to the conservatives who’ve been building up a conservative legal movement for the last 20 years." [2] Hearings before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee had been scheduled to begin on November 7, and members of the Republican leadership had stated before the nomination that they aimed to have the nominee confirmed before Thanksgiving (November 24). Miers withdrew her nomination on October 27, 2005 en.wikipedia.org