Looks like there’s at least a small chance that senate Republicans may fillibuster Harriet Miers.

I’d love to see it. Weren’t judicial nominations supposed to be the reason we were all asked to put up with President Bush’s spending, expansion of government, signing of campaign finance reform, and littany of other betrayals of principle?

Unless you’re completely delusional, like Hugh Hewitt, if you’re still a Bush supporter, the only thing you have left to defend him on is, um, Iraq. And the way things have regressed over there, if you’re willing to put up with Bush’s dreadful performance on just about every area of public policy in order to go to the mat with him for his leadership in Iraq, well, you’re about as delusional as Hugh Hewitt, anyway.

The Republican party has proven that they don’t stand for a damned thing beyond keeping and wielding power. I can’t decide if the Miers nomination was a wholesale cop-out by a wounded president who has lost all fight for what he claims to believe in, or yet another example of the rampant cronyism and arrogance of power of an administration that realizes it’ll never again face accountability at the ballot box, and simply doesn’t care anymore. Probably a little of both.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 3rd, 2005 at 6:34 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.