Miers Withdrawal Watch — Part 1

It’s going to happen.

I’ve started a “Miers Withdrawal Watch” (including continuing coverage of reactions from around the blogosphere) at The Reaction. Click here for Part 1.

Highlights:

According to The Washington Times, “[t]he White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush’s choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court”.

RedState.org, which despite its concerns has generally thought that Miers would be confirmed, says this: “I no longer think she can be confirmed. Miers [sic] competency has now become an issue and that will bleed enough blood in the water to cause a political feeding frenzy forcing a withdrawal.”

AMERICAblog asks the key question: “A strategic trial balloon or just wishful thinking by the right wingers?” Let’s hope it’s the former.

I explain why in MWW 1, along with some reaction to Miers’s alleged support for “proportional representation” and affirmative action — which is what’s finally pushing heretofore waffling conservatives like Jonah Goldberg away.