Some folks won’t like this Peggy Noonan piece much. But for me, it struck a nerve.  Of course, had today been a Friday, maybe I’d feel a bit differently.  Being naked in a tub of Guinness wouldn’t hurt things, either.

Hugh Hewitt: Because the assault from the left on the next nominee is going to be so intense, it makes sense to nominate a judge who has recently been vetted and FBI-checked. Fairly recent Senate hearings are also a plus, as they will demonstrate the necessary ability to handle the heat that is on the way. Because cases coming before the SCOTUS in the near future include some crucial decisions—including

Question:  how many “bases” does the President have, exactly?  I mean, for years we’ve been hearing from Democrats and the legacy media how James Dobson, Hugh Hewitt, the evangelicals, et al, are Bush’s “right wing” conservative base—but these are the very people who, in addition to GOP party pragmatists, by and large were most supportive of the Miers nomination. And yet today, all I’m hearing is that Bush caved to

From the WSJ (subscribers only, so I’ll excerpt at length): In addition to the prospect of indictments looming in the CIA leak case, the Bush administration faces another threat: civil litigation that could expose top officials to damage payments and years of wide-ranging scrutiny. Former diplomat Joseph Wilson, whose criticism of the administration’s Iraq policy sparked the current furor and led to the outing of his Central Intelligence Agency-operative wife,

Via Raw Story: Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on Harriet Miers’ withdrawal of her nomination to the United States Supreme Court. “The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not satisfy those who want to pack the Supreme Court with rigid ideologues. “I had recommended that the President consider nominating Ms. Miers because I

Lookie like some uppity darkie done gone an’ shuffled off’n dat ol’ liberal plantation agin’! (h/t LGF)