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If the White House is looking for a convenient excuse for withdrawing the Miers nomination, this story will probably provide them the political cover they need:

"Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.
"The windfall came after a judge who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Miers' law firm appointed a close professional associate of Miers and an outspoken property-rights activist to the three-person panel that determined how much the state should pay.
"The resulting six-figure payout to the Miers family in 2000 was despite the state’s objections to the "excessive” amount and to the process used to set the price. The panel recommended paying nearly $5 a square foot for land that was valued at less than 30 cents a square foot."

I personally don't have a problem with anything I've seen about Miers -- then again, as a South Park Republican, I'm not that militant about abortion. My own personal view about abortion (that I generally support it being available with reasonable restrictions and no government funding, but that there is no inherent Constitutional right to abortion) is screwy enough that it ensures I'll never be elected to public office, even if I lost my mind and decided to run...

Going deep...

Update 1529 24 Oct: Via Best of the Web, here's an article that talks about a possible withdrawal of the Miers nomination. I was upset in reading today's edition of "Best of..." because they used the "pining for the fjords" joke that I was going to use for the story of the dead British parrot...