I was invited to participate on a conference call with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, Patrick Ruffini, and bloggers today to discuss the Harriet Miers nomination. Chairman Mehlman was upbeat and reassuring about the nomination, however did not tell me what I already know. I didn’t get to ask a question, due to time restraints, however I wanted to ask Ken if the President was planning to release more information about her background nor will we have to wait for the Left Wing Smear Machine to hear more about her?
Professor Bainbridge asked the Chairman a question that I wanted to know too. The Professor also liveblogged the call.
Lorie Byrd asked if polls for the ‘06 elections are affected because of the Miers nomination. Great question.
More analysis at Decision ‘08 and Ankle Biting Pundits.
Eric Pfeiffer: “Do you believe that those conservatives who have reservations about the Miers nomination will be more comfortable with her qualifications and philosophy after the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee??
Matt Margolis, Gerry Daly and Captain Ed Morrisey were also on the call.
protein wisdom linked with I can see for Miers and Miers
Say Anything linked with Mehlman Calls To Reassure Bloggers
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5:14 pm [ Quote ]
I was there too, FWIW.
7:58 pm [ Quote ]
[...] Some bloggers today were lucky enough to get a call from RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman who was aiming to reassure them on the Miers nomination. [...]
8:47 pm [ Quote ]
I vote republican because of business and less government and I agree with being tough on terrorism. I’m not crazy about all this evangelical religious stuff in government.
10:39 pm [ Quote ]
Where’s the audio? This would be great material for a podcast. How do we get to listen to the raw material if we were busy during the call?
1:35 pm [ Quote ]
“To what purpose then require the co-operation of the Senate? I answer, that the necessity of their concurrence would have a powerful, though, in general, a silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment…
“[The President] would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.” – The Federalist Papers #76 -
4:02 pm [ Quote ]
I can see for Miers and Miers
RedState's Erick Erickson reports on yesterday's RNC conference call between Ken Mehlman and a small group of conservative bloggers critical of the Miers nomination (most of whom remain unswayed). Here's the part that caught my eye:[...]...
4:53 pm [ Quote ]
Good question Charlie .. sorry I don’t have the material to tape phone calls .. you might want to try asking Linda Tripp though