Miers withdraws nomination

Whatever the official reason (see her letter here), I imagine Miers was just eager to avoid any more of a process that had become about humiliation. It's good to hear some Dems using it to remind people of the fundamentalist hold on the White House.

WASHINGTON - Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."

The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush's conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity, and Democrats had little incentive to help the nominee or the embattled GOP president.

"Let's move on," said Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"

Youch. It just came down to the fact that no-one liked her. And she did nothing to help her own cause-- just check out her incompetent responsed on her "take-home test" from the Senate.