>> CFR...
...piling on Bill Bennett, schmoozing the Clintons, fence-straddling on Schiavo...
I've shut my eyes to a lot of things, for two reasons: the Bush Doctrine, and the promise of the Supreme Court nominations.
He got a pass on Roberts, on the admittedly shaky presumption that a man so intelligent almost HAS to be a conservative and an originalist.
But Harriet Miers---no. The very arguments presented in her defense are damning in their faintness and superficiality.
I expected a disappointment, because I know the President is no conservative and need no longer sell himself as one. But after a week of consideration I have to say that this nomination is a shock and a grievous insult to the voters who re-elected him.
Speaking of schmoozing the Clintons, he's trying to rehabilitate Ray Nagin's pitiful reputation now.