The latest... In the News: - John Fund: What went wrong (Input from yet another Chief of staff??) - Knight-Ridder: Republicans, Democrats confounded by Miers' nomination (Ya don't say) - From AFP: US Supreme Court candidate facing an uphill fight...

I agree with your post.

Ken, DL and Bryan:

Just because your minds are made up doesn't mean 50 Senators, a Vice President and a President agree with you. In the last analysis, that's all that matters.

If the nominee is not scintillating in the hearing her nomination is doomed, but it really should make for entertaining CSPAN and blogging.

On Jeff's side is Outside The Beltway with 'Miers and The Defence of Excellence' , attacking our unseemly arguments and suggesting we can do better, but conceeding: .....

Man I hate agreeing with Chuck Schumer but he is absolutely right about the Miers nomination. He does not believe she has the votes to be confirmed. She would have to give an outstanding presentation at the hearings to change that and I do not believ...

In other words, instead of being an independent voiece on the Court she will be just a weak echo of another..

It is a shame to waste one of nine positions on a person like that.

George, when you get home from the boot store and the bold newly selected pair of boots doesn't fit as well as you thought, and the family, the friends, and the horses are laughing at the style, it's time to take them back to the store and get a pair you know will work!

James Joyner opposes Miers but also took Will to task for one rather huffy remark: "Republican Senators who vote to support Miers merely because she is the president's choice or because they are confident she will vote to overturn Roe would indeed re...