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Fortunately, the press is no longer in a mood to be played the way the White House is used to. If they take more than about 16 hours from now to dump Miers, the press will be all over the story of the orchestration of the withdrawal. And it will take them much more than one more news cycle to stir up a critical mass of Republicon Senatebots "requesting" documents that might be covered by executive privilege. They will end up looking as incompetent in their efforts to drop this nomination as they have been in their efforts to promote it - for good reason, since the only thing they are clearly good at is demonstrating their own incompetence.
Look for them to flush Miers within hours of Fitzgerald releasing his indictments. At some point, even this White House has got to figure out that one no-good-very-bad day is better than two.
