[Lancey Howard]

"What is it that separates her from Luttig, Brown, Owen and others?"

Miers is confirmable.

So are the others. Do the math.

This lame defense of Bush's nomination of Miers, that he turned yellow and ran scared from the RINOs, simply doesn't hold water. Of those few Senators who might have voted against a strong, qualified conservative nominee, I bet they all voted in the past to confirm Luttig, Brown, and Owen to Appeals Courts.

[sinkspur]

Sorry, Lancey. Without overcoming the filibuster, none of them are confirmable. And it reasonable to assume that the filibuster will hold, McCain will not break the filibuster.

Brown and Owen are out, as Specter will not even bring them to the judiciary committee. He has said as much about the previously-filibustered candidates.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

So was Michael McConnell.

And yet the most ardent Miers supporters have been forced-because of the glaring deficiencies in her resume-to make the preposterous argument that not only was McConnell going to be a controversial pick, but that sending his name up to the Senate for consideration would have resulted in Bork redux.

So in other words, what nearly everyone-including liberal legal scholars, Democratic Party activists, and all but the most delusional, fringe left-wing bloggers-readily concedes, i.e. that someone like McConnell or Jones would ultimately confirmed, is so absurd as to be unworthy of discussion.