George Will has a piece in the Sunday Washington Post in which he excoriates Miers apologists for defending the indefensible. He ends with a throw down to presidential hopefuls in the Senate:
As for Republicans, any who vote for Miers will thereafter be ineligible to argue that it is important to elect Republicans because they are conscientious conservers of the judicial branch’s invaluable dignity. Finally, any Republican senator who supinely acquiesces in President Bush’s reckless abuse of presidential discretion — or who does not recognize the Miers nomination as such — can never be considered presidential material.
Youch.
Also, a couple of major right-of-center MSM organs have weighed in institutionally in the last couple of days. The WSJ editors pronounced the Miers nomination “a political blunder of the first order.” The Economist observes that Bush’s “decision to nominate a lightweight palace attendant who may not even be a conservative is forcing a wide-rangeing re-evaluation of his presidency on the right.”
Posted by Marie Gryphon on October 22, 2005