Rightwing News did a poll of right of center blogsabout Miers nomination. The results were overwhelmingly that they hate the pick. We voted in this poll, that we didn’t know yet. There is plenty of negative coverage around the blogosphere, a…

It’s actually, as Thomas Sowell put it, the best pick the President could have made in view of the weak representatives the republican party has in the house and the senate–who seem to be afraid of their own shadows.

President Bush has taken on too many tough fights — Social Security being a classic example — to be regarded as a man who is personally weak. What is weak is the Republican majority in the Senate.

When it comes to taking on a tough fight with the Senate Democrats over judicial nominations, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist doesn’t really have a majority to lead. Before the President nominated anybody, before he even took the oath of office for his second term, Senator Arlen Specter was already warning him not to nominate anyone who would rile up the Senate. Later, Senator John Warner issued a similar warning. It sounded like a familiar Republican strategy of pre-emptive surrender.

Before we can judge how the President played his hand, we have to consider what kind of hand he had to play. It was a weak hand — and the weakness was in the Republican Senators.

Interesting, isn’t it, that all the anti-Miers hysteria from the right is doing the Left’s work for them. I wonder how our fellow pro-lifers who are anti-Miers feel about the fact that NARAL (and PAW, etc.) hasn’t had to spend any money on advertising against Miers yet? I wonder if they realize how much advertising money they’re saving NARAL? Might as well call it a donation to them.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………..:evil:

Sweeping across the G.O.P.
Ed “Captain” Morrissey has an op-ed running in today’s Washington Post entitled, How Harriet Unleashed a Storm on the Right.
The article begins with a taste of irony:
Well, he’s finally done it. B…