After Democratic Senators started reacting to the latest developments on the Harriet Miers nomination, Arlen Specter urged them, "keep your powder dry, wait till we've had the hearing, and then make up your mind."
Have you ever heard anyone offer advice like this to Senators who come out in support of a nominee? Implicit in Specter's admonition is the idea that Senators cannot decide to oppose Miers based solely on her record. I reject this notion.
If you believe, as I do, that Harriet Miers is unqualified to sit on the Surpeme Court of the United States, is there anything she could say at the hearings to change your mind? Even if she were effective at offering rehearsed platitudes,
would that justify confirmation? I think you know my answers to those questions.
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