too funny
Aziz P
to not link to:
Cheney: "Look, just tell him that you couldn't find anyone, but that you think you could probably just do it yourself."
Miers: "There's no way I can pull that off."
Cheney: "He'll go for it, I swear!"
via Confirm Them, which also has an advance copy of uber-conservative George Will's upcoming column that nails the President to the wall harder than he ever was nailed by a liberal foe.
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His biggest mistake may have been his last line: "For this we need a conservative president?"
Whether you need one or not, George, it's not what you have. You have a moderately conservative centrist who promised a few specific things to conservatives, most of which he's delivered on.
He did make them some promises on judges. Conservatives are now faced with a choice: do they trust his judgement? Up to them I suppose; if they want to view everything through the lens of Michael Brown and not the sum of the hundreds (thousands?) of appointments he's made, okay. But the charge that Miers doesn't have enough experience is bogus; countless justices, many of great distinction, had no serious experience as judges, including justices worshipped by conservatives.
Methinks what some conservatives are more angry about is that they wanted a knock-down, drag-out, bloody-nosed fight on the Senate floor and didn't get it. Scrappleface seems to agree. (Here too.)
I must say that, whatever Harriet Miers is, she can't be as bad as some of the people some of those people would have chosen instead, e.g., Robert Bork. And thank God Kerry and his Democrats didn't win or else we'd have Cass Sunstein.
Jeff Soyer at Alphecca on Harriet Miers and the Second Amendment.