The Mier's story is going from bad to worse.

Ok folks lets start from the top

(Hat tip Captin's Quarters)

American Spectator

Now word is coming out of the White House that it might not be opposed to Specter being allowed to offer his stem cell legislation as an amendment to the Labor-Health approps bill. And what does the White House get out of it? Specter's backing off from vocal criticism of SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers.

Now I hope some of the scientific projects such as culturing fetal stem cells from living infants are why this is coming into play.....

But I am afraid to say I don't know if I can believe that anymore.

worse on the American Spectator Blog we see rumors of this being a bad kind of bribe.

Specter is not only angry about the questionaire that Miers and her handlers submitted. He is angry at the reports he is getting back from his fellow Senators coming out of their private meetings with Miers. "They are universally negative," says Republican staffer for a Senator who has met with the nominee. The bad reports are making Specter feel put upon.

This reminds me of an issue of Transmetropolitan ( a comic book) where the President was found guilty of conspiring to kill his former vice president and ordering a whole sale slaughter of innocent children. It had pictures of a White House in chaos with people trying to bail out and with a President just staring out the window in Anger. I don't see Bush ordering wholescale executions but I do seem to think these things imply the White House is that disordered.

The Wall Street Journal is coming out against the nomination Which for a big company lawyer is very shocking.

but the Campaign contribution issue is more shocking in light of the possible acts of Miers to keep Ben Barnes fat and happy on kickbacks.

Campaign records show Bush's Texas gubernatorial campaigns paid Miers a total of $163,000 in legal fees, most of it for work done during the future president's 1998 re-election bid.

Ya know guys I am all for Attorney cliient privelege as the next guy. But that is a lot of money in legal fees for a campaign.

"I'm baffled," said Randall B. Wood, a partner in the Austin firm of Ray, Wood and Bonilla, and former director of Common Cause of Texas. "I've never seen that kind of money spent on a campaign lawyer. It's unprecedented."

Indeed it is in the neighborhood of Presidential campaign attorneys fees. And if bush was spending in advance of the 2000 campaign in 98 with 98 money that just would have to be illegal.....

and worse then that... the expense is just really questionable

Former Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, a Democrat who was defeated handily by Bush in the 1998 campaign, said both the amount and the timing of the payments are curious. In late September, when Miers' firm received the first of two $70,000 payments, Mauro said he trailed Bush in the polls by 35 points.

This is just really sloppy, these are things the folks in the White House should know as many of them were involved in Texas.

every day a new reason to oppose the nomination comes out.

I now have to even question her loyalty to the president because.... shouldn't a loyalist be falling on their sword by now?