White House at War with itself-Blaming Andrew Card For Miers [View All]

[LiviaOlivia]

October 11, 2005
Blaming Card For Miers
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/10/blaming_card_fo_1.html

Is it just us or is there already a storyline developing about 'who's to blame for Miers'"? And if so, is WH CoS Andrew Card about to be on the wrong end of this blame game?

This scenario holds Card responsible for pushing President Bush to select Miers, for pushing her through the vetting process secretly, inartfully, and incompletely, and for screwing up the outreach to conservatives.

Republicans close to the process have marveled at how the White House seems to be chasing information about Miers it reads in the press, rather than framing it. "It's as if," one adviser who is sympathetic to Miers told The Hotline today, "they don't know anything about her."

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"Sources inside the White House say Card in several meetings literally shouted down opposition to Miers during the vetting process."

This makes Card look bad and White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove look, well, less bad. What that says about who is leaking this stuff... whether Rove and Card are at loggerheads... whether the White House bungled the nomination outreach... is TBD.

hotlineblog at October 11, 2005 08:35 PM

:rofl: