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...coup de grace came last Wednesday after the Washington Post unearthed pro-choice language Miers used in speeches a decade ago. That morning, after Frist told Bush he didn't have the votes to get Miers out of committee--let alone confirmed--the President sent chief of staff Andy Card and other White House officials to the Hill to try to save the nomination. But Kyl and his team fought back, G.O.P. staff members say, and used the Post article to help keep Senators opposed to Miers and to bring at least one other Senator into the undecided camp...
...Miers was the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. But it turns out the man most responsible for taking Miers down was an insider, the G.O.P.'s fourth-ranked Senator, Jon Kyl (rhymes with smile). The second-term conservative from Arizona argued at length in meetings with majority leader Bill Frist and G.O.P. whip Mitch McConnell that the Miers nomination was too risky ideologically and too costly politically, sources on Capitol Hill tell TIME. From Day One, says a G.O.P. staff member, "[Kyl] was trying to kill Miers...
...With Washington Republicans facing the leak investigation, probes of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist and low poll numbers, next fall's congressional elections could present a major opportunity for Democrats. "The external environment is shaping up to create one of the best Democratic years in a long time," said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. Since 1962, when a President's approval ratings have dipped below 50%, his party has lost an average of 43 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans only have a 28-seat advantage in the House and fewer than...
...division" or "disarray." Washington is abuzz with rumors that an indictment could come as soon as this week in the CIA leak case. Both Karl Rove, the president's top political advisor, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, could face charges. Bill Frist, the top Republican in the Senate, remains under investigation for a stock sale that that has raised suspicions of insider trading, while a prosecutor in Texas continues to go after Tom DeLay, who was forced to leave his post as the No. 2 Republican in the House after being indicated...
...czar” has been crowned, but Corker has stayed in the employ of his alma mater. His latest project: planning the first ever Harvard College Pub.This week at Princeton, though, he took an uncharacteristic detour—away from pubs and into the Frist Center, Princeton’s student life hub.Undergraduate Council President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 would have been proud. While Harvard University looked to Corker and then to his replacement Justin H. Haan ’05 for an answer to the social life problem, Harvard students like him have long...