Miers to face hostile queries from both sides of aisle - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: quotes Dr Dobson -

'Well, what Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list,' he said, according to a transcript obtained last night. 'They would not allow their names to be considered because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it.'