Sound Reasoning On Miers

It also contains the best description I've seen yet of the right wing riot currently playing out about Ms. Harriet: "Miers hasn't even completed her round of grip-and-grin sessions on Capitol Hill and Bush's conservative base -- at least those among the pontificating class -- is having at her as if she's Justice David Souter in drag."

As the author notes, congress is the key bulwark against a regressive court. And the key to winning the congress? Focus on clean government, a strong and wise America abroad, and a return to civility in Washington. The Republicans talk a lot about restraint and limitations on government, but no rational person can look at the last eleven years and conclude that the GOP is a party of restraint.

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