Some unhappy with Bush pick for high court
Indianapolis Star
10/05/05
Not satisfied with President Bush's word, conservative senators and others questioned Wednesday whether Harriet Miers was the best Supreme Court nominee a self-proclaimed conservative Republican president could find. 'I guess they thought we'd all just say 'Whoopee!' but that's not the way it works around here anymore,' said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. He insisted there were many potential nominees more qualified than Miers. The White House and congressional GOP leaders -- weakened by the Hurricane Katrina recovery, high gas prices, the war in Iraq and investigations of House and Senate majority leaders Tom DeLay and Bill Frist -- now find themselves defending Bush's decision to elevate his 60-year-old White House counsel to the Supreme Court...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/05/05
Not satisfied with President Bush's word, conservative senators and others questioned Wednesday whether Harriet Miers was the best Supreme Court nominee a self-proclaimed conservative Republican president could find. 'I guess they thought we'd all just say 'Whoopee!' but that's not the way it works around here anymore,' said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. He insisted there were many potential nominees more qualified than Miers. The White House and congressional GOP leaders -- weakened by the Hurricane Katrina recovery, high gas prices, the war in Iraq and investigations of House and Senate majority leaders Tom DeLay and Bill Frist -- now find themselves defending Bush's decision to elevate his 60-year-old White House counsel to the Supreme Court...
http://tinyurl.com/8dtgc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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