Here we go again! Lot’s happening and I’m buried up past my eyeballs in stuff to do, and also with helping the wife at her office, but I can’t just let the Harriet Miers nomination pass without some comment on all the hullabaloo that is swirling everywhere. When it comes to the conservatives that are up in arms over this nomination, I see folks that are just itchin’ for a big fight, and are extremely disappointed that they aren’t gonna get one — but then again, maybe they will, and they won’t be ready for it this time. Just wait until the “Dims” get a good look at the nominee. Old Harry Reid will wonder just “What was I thinking?” after that. As for ‘dubya — just when did he start caring what all of us constantly catterwall about anyway? He does what he thinks is right, come hell or Katrina & Rita.

These are my thoughts and opinions, and are worth just that, one ol’ Okie’s bitches, pisses, moans and groans. For analysis and a caution to wait and see, go read Hugh Hewitt.

I hope the disappointed right will get over its sulk quickly as the fight over Miers is going to get very ugly very quickly as both the secular left and the anti-religious left realize that the president has nominated a thorough-going Evangelical of character and tough disposition. The light is going to go off over there that the president’s eyebrows went up when Harry Reid scribbled Miers’ name on the Minority Leader’s list of acceptable nominees.

Taking the ball and going home because the nominee doesn’t know you by your first name is hardly principle at work, and the refusal to see what she brings to the table isn’t argument. It is entertaining, and also a sort of wish for a return to the days of old when the president was a Democrat and brick throwing made life as a pundit easy.

Lowell Brown, The Hedgehog first faults the nominee:

Before I say anything else, let me remind everyone reading this that I am an unabashed fan of George W. Bush, as all the posts on this blog demonstrate.

That’s why I find the Harriet Miers nomination downright disturbing.

Then backtracks to Hugh’s position of checking it out a bit more.

My blogfather Hugh Hewitt is optimistic, and critical (justifiably, I think) of conservatives who have resorted to bitter ridicule in response to the Miers nomination. (See Rich Lowry’s piece, for example.) Hugh’s thoughtful optimism gives me hope too.

A very strong anti-Miers argument, Hewitt’s Still Wrong, is stated by Professor Bainbridge:

Hugh Hewitt continues to defend the Harriet Miers nomination, now by attacking his usual allies on the right. He lays into Rammesh Ponnuru for not bowing down before “scholar” Doug Kmiec’s defense of Miers (Hugh’s choice to emphasize Kmiec’s scholarly credentials is a bit odd, given that in the same post he defends Miers for lacking precisely that qualification.)
(…)
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The problem is that people like Hewitt and Kmiec want us to take on faith the proposition that Harriet Miers will “shun legislating from the bench.” Yet, neither Hugh nor Kmiec marshall any evidence from Miers’ record to support that proposition. Hugh’s repeated card – and its the only one he has to play, in my view – is to ask us to trust Bush. So for Hugh, here’s why I am unwilling to trust Bush on this one.

The good professor brings up eleven points that deserve consideration. Wonder if Doug TenNapel has read them yet?

This [Meirs' position on the ABA taking/not taking a position on abortion] is absolute proof that Bush is a moderate and not a flaming right wing conservative. Those of us on the right wanted Bush to follow our agenda, and this is not a president who is in anybody’s pocket.

Miers is 60 years too old, she’s never been a judge before, she’s contributed to Clinton and Gore’s elections…but I trust the promise of this president to nominate strict Constitutional constructionists. Miers’ nomination doesn’t sit well with me, but Bush’s has earned my trust enough to where I’ll wait an see what happens before I have my big fat conservative heart attack.

John Schroeder at Blogotional sums it up pretty well for me:

And here is the last thing I have to say on this. I worked pretty doggone hard to elect this President, and one of the reasons I did so was so he could nominate SCOTUS judges. Seems to me that in light of the LACK of information about this woman, the best thing to do is trust his judgment, not debate it. Sometimes I think it is the Republican tendency to eat our own that prevents us from ever really cementing power in the nation.

Let’s not pout because its not the specific individual most wanted, let’s get busy insuring we get the kind of court we want.

Well said, John. We might get fat and happy from “eating our own”, but that won’t help us in ‘06 and especially in ‘08. We better be forward looking here — just think about the possibility of Hillary appointing replacements for Bader-Ginsberg, Kennedy and Stevens. Now there’s something that’ll keep you up nights!

Patrick Ruffini has a post called Coalition of the Chillin’. Check it out, chill awhile, and back off the adrenaline — the fight is gonna come — we just might not need to rumble this time . . . (db)

[Update] La Shawn Barber is less than interested in the Miers nomination:

This is my obligatory Harriet Miers post. I’m having trouble generating enough interest to write about the Supreme Court nominations. I honestly couldn’t care less that George Bush picked yet another crony for an important job, a lifetime appointment that could overhaul the foundation of our social policy for the better. Or the worst.

As significant as that is, I just don’t care. (…)

But, La Shawn has opened up her post to trackbacks and comments from others, so check that out for a few dozen interesting perspectives. (db)

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