Mmmmmmm ... shiiiiiit ....

Thank you, Mr. President. Next time, why don't we skip the middle-man and you can crap right in my mouth!

ACE: Thanks so much for this Miers post. I was afraid I might get through the day without feeding my MOS (Miers obsession syndrome), but buddy you saved me again!!!! I note that you did have to go back to things that were posted TEN DAYS AGO, but when you're providing a life saving service no effort is too much. Thanks again, your fellow MOS sufferor.

Dear God, please make this battle over the shit-sandwich stop.

(Still kidding)

Leave the Hewitt jokes to Allah. He's funny.

So what would be a good name for calling you Miers Deniers ???

You don't like elitist or sexist or crybaby. What's a good all around epithet for bone heads who don't think us "regular" conservatives are good enough or pure enough or no better than moonbat Democrats because we're satisfied with Roberts, tax cuts, Afghanistan, Iraq, ABM and we have no principles and won't stand up for WHAT'S GOOD AND PURE and KEEPS OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS from becoming contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria?

Really ???

What DO you want to be called ???

I'd settle for being called "Not Related to Boris".

I've always wanted to be called "Your Majesty."

I have this recurring dream where I step out onto a marble balcony, and tens of thousands of small, greasy people below shout "huzzah!" and do the wave. It always ends in tears. The twitch of a curtain, a bright knife between the ribs, the ancient ring of gold and jewel slipping to the floor and rolling across ceremonial carpet.

Or, "Lumpy Jo" is good.

I'd prefer "not retarded."

I'm starting to think it's possible that she'll be withdrawn if they don't schedule the hearings in the next couple days. That'd be sweet (my caveat still applies that I don't think we should feast on the blood of our long time allies if it isn't).

Anyone think that Wilkinson from the 4th could get confirmed? He seems do-able.

I'm too upset to decide what I want to be called. When a calm, tightly analytical thinker like boris says I'm a "crybaby," well... that just really hurts, you know?

Ah, finally ... Boris is wearing out his welcome somewhere else.

If I wanted more welcome and kudos 'round here ...

... I'd just take some more cheap shots at Bill from INDC.

Wilkinson? Don't know if he'd be confirmed, but the nominee's gonna have to be a chick.

The real fight from the libs ain't this nom, it's gonna be 85 year old Stevens replacement (or whoever the next lib to drop is). That's gonna tip the court 5-4 in the other direction and every aspect of that nominee's coverage is gonna be all about Roe and whether the new guy's gonna 'Bork back the clock' on all our S.Ct granted liberties. (Yeah, it's bad now, but the 5-4 nominee fight will be fuckin insane.)

If Bush doesn't nominate a woman now, on the next nominee, it's gonna be all about how the court's imbalanced against women and this needs to be corrected especially when 'the issue of women's choice' so obviously will turn on it .

Bush (or whoever) will be compelled to nominate a woman in those circumstances when there's already gonna be a huge fight over philosphy (one the media will already be gunnin to inform we're on the wrong side of).

Just saying the eventual 5-4 nominee is going to have to be absolutely perfect - chosen from a wide, unconstrained pool. The Rep. president will need an originalist who's appropriateness of resume approaches the 'groomed from the womb' level of Roberts.

The next battle will be hell. Can't go into it constrained in our ability to fight it. If you want a Luttig for the next time, you need a chick now.

I'm a little confused. Is Breyer a conservative, or just wishy-washy?

Because if O'Connor was the swing vote, who was the fourth conservative, after Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist?

Doc, you have a point. Think we could fool them with a cross-dressing Wilkinson and then go with Luttig?

Dog,

Breyer is super liberal.

Anthony Kennedy is the one you missed from the conservative side (but he's a little soft).

OK, thanks. I was too lazy to do the research. Kennedy isn't much of a conservative. He was the one who went on and on and on about gay this and gay that in the sodomy decision. Guess he becomes the new swing vote, if Miers is everything Bush claims she is.

I hope it doesn't go to his head.

The Rep. president will need an originalist who's appropriateness of resume approaches the 'groomed from the womb' level of Roberts.

Should have laid the groundwork years ago with 'sleeper' justices who only unveil their conservative tendencies after being appointed.

Kennedy seems to have a special place in his heart for the gay rights cause.

His Romer decision was an embarassment -- a gushy screed directed almost exclusively toward the supposed motives of the people who enacted the law in question, not the actual wording of it or its effect.

Sully couldn't have done better himself.

The post is a classic (though old), but this comment to it may be even funnier.

This is so funny, even funnier for someone who understands how totally unprincipled Hugh Hewitt is. His entire approach is to abandon principles willy nilly to increase electoral majorities.

Well ... Village Idiot might be a possible epithet for bone heads who don't think us "regular" conservatives are good enough or pure enough or no better than moonbat Democrats because we're satisfied with Roberts, tax cuts, Afghanistan, Iraq, ABM and we have no principles and won't stand up for WHAT'S GOOD AND PURE and KEEPS OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS from becoming contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria, but ...

The epithet would have to be plural given the nature of the syndrome, and the normal meaning of Village Idiot is the stoopidist moron in the whole village and there would only be one of those.

Anyway, keep trying.

I didn't address my comments at "regular conservatives" generally, but Hugh Hewitt specifically. I listen to Hugh Hewitt regularly, he is entertaining, but I do not trust him. Read his book "if it isn't close, they can't win", and listen to his show a while, you will see that he regularly advocates Republicans abandon core values to increase electoral majorities. He takes power over principle to an extreme I am very uncomfortable with.

I meant if it isn't close they can't cheat :)

Turning the country over to Democrats is not one of my core values or particularly principled.

Conservatives value prudence. I value prudence. WTF gives you the idea that your core values are better than mine? Or Hewitts?

Betcha the bush gang thought the womenfolk would rally behind Harriet.

It ain't happenin'. The gals want a QUALIFIED nominee.

Burn, George, burn.