Harriet: (Wince); Doonesbury kills Miers strips, puts them on Web
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An hour after she walked into the Oval Office and withdrew her Supreme Court nomination, Harriet E. Miers called Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, an old friend from Texas, to relay her decision. Absent tears or self-pity, Ms. Miers seemed intent on bucking up her allies and bolstering faith in her beleaguered boss. NYT: Bush Is Not Expected to Feel Need to Pick Woman Again. Does this seem like a nonsequitur to anyone else: Since a half-hearted attempt to place the President's personal lawyer on the Court didn't fly, there's nobody left but an old-boy-network insider? Chicago Tribune: Doonesbury: When good strips turn bad. Harriet, we hardly knew ye. The following week of strips on the planned confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers were intended for publication beginning Monday, October 31st. Rendered obsolete by the announcement of her withdrawal from consideration on Thursday the 27th, they are nonetheless presented below for your reading pleasure. Next week's strips will be repeats. The panel above is from one of the killed strips. 
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