WorldNetDaily: Guaranteed: Miers to withdraw

This actually is Joseph Farah's column of two weeks ago, predicting that Harriet Miers would never appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Farah predicted that she just plain knew too much that could embarrass Bush--things that she knew from her days as a Texas Lottery Commissioner, that had to do with whether Bush did or did not receive preferential placement in the Texas Air National Guard.

I never believed that overblown TANG story for a second, and still don't. If Dan Rather did not engineer the Killian forgeries, then he certainly created a climate of desire for such forgeries that the actual forger was only too willing to operate in. In any case, the TANG story began and ended with Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News--and if I were a judge, I would exercise judicial discretion and reject any evidence to the contrary, on the basis that someone lied about a material point.

In any event, I don't believe that the Texas Lottery affair sank the nomination. I believe that the continued outcry against Miers on conservative principle prompted two Republican Senators to make a request for documents that no President could ever in good conscience provide, as a way of giving Miers an excuse to withdraw. She took the excuse, and I am more than satisfied with that.

All the same, Farah was right about one thing: she is gone, and before the hearings even began.