ConfirmThem

By Quin Posted in Uncategorized — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

I had a wonderful dream. PResident Bush did something so wise that it left the Left speechless, while uniting thinkers on the Right as never before. From the Right, all the following were agreed: George Will, Bill Kristol, David Frum, Ramesh Ponnuru, Charles Krauthammer, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez, Paul Weyrich, Professor Bainbridge, Sen. Sam Brownback, Sen. Trent Lott, the Third Branch Conference, Terrey Jeffrey, Richard Miniter, Bruce Fein, Peggy Noonan, Randy Barnett, Rush Limbaugh.... and many, many, many, many more. But then the dream, as dreams often do, turned bad. It turns out that the Left was silent only because they didn't need to say anything. The thinkers on the Rigt were saying everything that needed to be said, CRITICIZING President Bush. And they were right to say those things, because the president had pulled an incredibly dunderheaded move, and in many ways an offensive one, by betraying one of the most important beliefs of those on the Right, beliefs that so many of them had spent so many years supporting and working and bleeding for.
Then I woke up and found, to my dismay, that it wasn't a dream at all. The nightmare is a reality. The president has sold us out by, against the tenets of Fed 76 and against the example of the Roberts nomination and against the lessons of the Pryor, Scalia, Thomas and JRB nominations, putting forth somebody who is both underqualified AND less than able to assure anybody of her approach to constitutional jurisprudence.
The Miers nomination stinks. It ought to be withdrawn. And we should keep the pressure on to see that it is.