Actually, now that I just heard the news reports on the oil companies record profits--the hugest of the hugest price gouge in history, using Katrina as a convenient excuse--I believe the timing of the Miers withdrawal may have been to deflect the media from seizing on the record oil company profits taken in the 3rd quarter.

For the first time in the history of the world--yes, that's right--for the first time ever, ever, ever--a corporation has earned over $100 billion in a single quarter.

Guess who?