bill: i backed it up. >> also harriet miers was pushed aside by republicans, people like sam brownback, lindsey graham. bill: now, wait, colmes. >> the same take as conservatives who said she was not qualified. bill: white man's last stand. ok. what if "the new york times" had printed "black man take a hike"? >> that's not what -- bill: oh! >> wait a second. that's not analogous. >> what you're saying is so ridiculous. that's not what they said. bill: did you see the reaction? >> because it's such a ridiculous analogy, that it's not what the times said conversely at all. >> he is so busted. a wise white woman with the richness of my experiences, i will come to a better judgment than the white guy alan colmes. bill: you're still stupid because you like palin pln. according to maureen dowd, you're a dummy. >> you know what, sarah palin -- this piece by maureen dowd was not only racist, it was sexist. she went after sarah palin and she continues to do so. this is not the first time. in the most disgusting, revolting way. i found that women have attacked sarah palin even more intensely and

bill: i backed it up. >> also harriet miers was pushed aside by republicans, people like sam brownback, lindsey graham. bill: now, wait, colmes. >> the same take as conservatives who said she was not qualified. bill: white man's last stand. ok. what if "the new york times" had printed "black man take a hike"? >> that's not what -- bill: oh! >> wait a second. that's not analogous. >> what you're saying is so ridiculous. that's not what they said. bill: did you see the reaction? >> because it's such a ridiculous analogy, that it's not what the times said conversely at all. >> he is so busted. a wise white woman with the richness of my experiences, i will come to a better judgment than the white guy alan colmes. bill: you're still stupid because you like palin pln. according to maureen dowd, you're a dummy. >> you know what, sarah palin -- this piece by maureen dowd was not only racist, it was sexist. she went after sarah palin and she continues to do so. this is not the first time. in the most disgusting, revolting way. i found that women have attacked sarah palin even more intensely and

>> well, i think i would vote no on sonia sotomayor the same way i would have voted no on harriet miers so the first day she was nominated. i don't think sonia sotomayor is qualified. she has not shown any great intellect here or any depth of the constitution. she's never written anything i've read in terms of a law review, article or major book or something like that on the law, and i do believe she's an affirmative action appointment by the president of the united states. he eliminated everyone but four women and then picked the hispanic. i would vote no. >> what do you think that affirmative action is for? >> affirmative action is to increase diversity by discriminating against white males. as alan bakke was discriminated at the university of california at davis. as brian weber that worker in louisiana was discriminated against. as frank richie and those firefighters were discriminated against, as jennifer grauts, was discriminated against and kept out of the university of michigan which she set her heart on, even though her grades were far higher than people who were allowed in ther

basically karl rove and harriet miers who was one of bush's attorneys to allow the investigation to go forward and take this issue out of the courts. this is all looking into what role the white house played, and particularly political officials within the white house like karl rove, played in the dismissal of about nine or ten u.s. attorneys back at the end of 2006. >> josh, a great leader looks forward and not back. if i'm barack obama similar to the cia issue we were dealing with a couple weeks ago, don't they want to just leave it alone at this point. we have so many problems. in a strange way, if there's egregious behavior, we have to pay attention to it. the last person i'm ever defending is karl rove. >> we even heard this come up in the beer summit last night. president obama's line, we all need to look forward and not back. i think that applies in this situation as far as the white house is concerned, but remember some of the president's most strident supporters, the people from moveon.org, the internet acted democrats are some of the ones who remain most exorcised about anyth

. >> after conservatives terry peed doed bush's next nominee, harriet miers for lack of credentials heicked samuel alito, a favorite of the right who had a long paper trail on court of appeals. in the end senate democrats could not keep alito off the court when they tried and while some portrayed alito as racially insensitive, graham came to his defense and a cheery alito-- >> are you a closet bigot? >> aim note any kind of a bigot. >> no, sir, you're not, judge alito, iemz you had to go through this. iemz your family has been, had to sit here and listen to this. >> yale law professor steven carter. >> and we're hoping and praying, seriously those grown up enough whatever charts may be brought, whatever opponents may want to stand up and say they'll be done with some decorum. >> and it's an uncomfortable vote, i'm not advocating you get a witness like anita hill and lie through her teeth about clarence thomas, but i'm iemz judge sotomayor, but you have not answered my question, this is serious business for the sense of liberty and if the republicans articulated that concern, then, we c

. >> after conservatives terry peed doed bush's next nominee, harriet miers for lack of credentials hecked samuel alito, a favorite of the right who had a long paper trail on court of appeals. in the end senate democrats could not keep alito off the court when they tried and while some portrayed alito as racially insensitive, graham came to his defense and a cheery alito-- >> are you a closet bigot? >> aim note any kind of a bigot. >> no, sir, you're not, judge alito, iemz you had to go through this. iemz your family has been, had to sit here and listen to this. >> yale law professor steven carter. >> and we're hoping and praying, seriously those grown up enough whatever charts may be brought, whatever opponents may want to stand up and say they'll be done with some decorum. >> and it's an uncomfortable vote, i'm not advocating you get a witness like anita hill and lie through her teeth about clarence thomas, but i'm iemz judge sotomayor, but you have not answered my question, this is serious business for the sense of liberty and if the republicans articulated that concern, then, we co

and then white house counsel harriet miers. after that only did rovealon the record the firings began to takshape in 2005, witthen white house council myers, alberto gonzalez, and ky samson talking about replacing all 93 u.sattorns. when they figureout that that mighhave been too obvious, the trio allegedly settled un firing eight of the osecutors in 2006. but was rove that actually came up with the ide first myers ansampson, finally gonzal has resigned. rove has n been touched, possibly, that is until now. he's expecteto appear before the committee for a seco time before thend of the month. let's turn to the washington editor of "theation" magazine, chs hayes. good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> so which is this? is this the start ofomething big, or a postscript? >> i hope it the fmer, but i fear it'the latter. committeemen -- the chrman john conyers has shown an admirable fility to truth and accountability and ihink he's beenursuing this sort of quietly but zealsly in a way that i hope bears someruit. but the fact othe m

positioning, which is probably why the president in his next case should appoint someone more like harriet miers. let me just say, i would remind you that antonnia scalia, the conservative on the court, i think she'll be confirmed handily. >> she'll be confirmed handily, that's right. but these are different days, bob woodward. i think in part because of the democrat strategy against judge alito. we just saw there. president obama, dick durbin, several other democrats, 25 joined a filibuster. more than that voted no. we're not going to see 98-0 vote or anything like that? >> i don't expect that. i suppose not. there's always the surprise vector. somebody may come up with something. she may say something that's controversial. she's quite capable of that. what i find interesting is how much she wants this job. if you look at her biography. she prepared all of her life for it. she really has experience, apparently, when obama met with her, she really blew him away on the constitutional law issues. which she understands. the question is, if she's confirmed, what her impact going to be on the court?

in atlanta, much less with me, and so we're in thes process of enforcing the subpoenas against harriet miers josh bolten, and miers was the lawyer an bolton was the chief of staff. he's got lots of documents an all the bread crumbs, as we call them, go right to the white house. it's not hard to figure out the firings of the u.s. attorneys, mid sizing -- politicizing the one branch of the administration that should be as free of politics as possible, the department of justice, and then we are trying to get hate kimes crimes through. oh, boy, somebody wanted to add the death penalty to the hate crimes act. thanks, guys. nothing like cooperation with the other body, and then a subject that has commanded so much of my time is the universal healthcare bill. i started with this so long ago, not as the leader of it, but when hillary clinton called us universal single payers into the white house, we had 100 then, 101, i think, and we have 85 cosponsors now, which is the most powerful bill in the congress, and yet there is this effort to lock it behind the door and let's talk about it as little as po

so, we are in the process of enforcing the subpoenas against harriet miers, josh bolton. bolden was the chief of staff. he has lots of documents. all the bread crumbs go right to the white house, it is not hard to figure out. the firings of the u.s. attorney's politicizing the one branch of the administration that should be as free of politics as possible. then we are trying to get hate crimes through -- ovoid, someone wanted to add the death penalty to the hate crimes act in the senate. thanks, guys. nothing like cooperation with the other body. the subjects that has commanded so much of my time is a universal health care bill. i started with this so long ago, not as the leader of it but when hillary clinton called us into the white house. we had 100 and. -- we had 100 then. this was the most popular bill in the congress and yet there is this effort to lock it in the juror, let's talk about it as little as possible. the one that most americans have been told to want. this reaches everyone. a universal health care bill from the moment you are born until the time you go to