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How could Republican senators vote against Miers when the voted almost unanimously to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer?

The anti-Miers jihadists will gladly tell you: Ginsburg and Breyer were both qualified, you see. They went to the right schools, put in their time on appellate courts, and sucked up to the right Supreme Court justices through internships.

How they vote, how much damage they do to the country through their decisions, is beside the point.

The most important thing is that they were qualified.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The Breyer and Ginsburg confirmations-as infuriating as they were-did not reflect poorly upon the Clinton administration.

At least, not to its die-hard, reflexively leftist base.

Ms. Miers however-should she be confirmed-will serve as an albatross around the neck of the conservative movement and the Republican Party for generations to come.

Mark my words.