What I don't understand is Frum's obsession on getting this nomination derailed before she even comes up for a vote. It smacks of fear, and for the life of me I can't understand why they are afraid of her. If she is so incompetent, then she will flub in the hearings. If she is a stellar candidate like Roberts, then what's the problem?
What are they so afraid of? I just don't get it.
The senators will preen, she will dodge-or attempt to doge-questions, and we will have gained no insight into her broader judicial philosophy.
Demanding that the hearings take place is tantamount to demanding that she be confirmed.
That's a risk that we just cannot afford to take.
What I don't understand is Frum's obsession on getting this nomination derailed before she even comes up for a vote.
What I get from opponents like Frum (even Rush and others) is that they are throwing a temper tantrum because they didn't get their way and they think they are too important to the GOP not to get their way. I sense conceit and elitism ("Listen to me, waa, waa, waa."). Harriet Miers is the little guy, not the high falutin' Ivy League elitist know-it-all, so other high falutin' elitists in the GOP don't like the pick because it's not one of them.
Rush alway complains about the "pointy headed liberal elites", but we're seeing "pointy headed conservatives". Apparently Miers doesn't have the right credentials to rub shoulders with the "pointy headed conservatives".
At least Miers has the guts to stay in there and take the abuse, unlike Owens and others on the short list who didn't want to go through it.