Republican congressmen and senators are in the process of making the practical judgment whether to distance themselves from the president to save their skins. I don't blame them.
(After all, it's not as if he is currently championing their principles and policies domestically.)
[Kathryn Jean Lopez 10/26 08:45 AM]
Some good points, via an e-mail:
but today’s article in the Post is really important assuming the quotes are in context. Miers appears to be responding to RECENT cases that her audience would have known. That means she was talking about Casey (1992) (reaffirming Roe) and Lee v. Weisman (1992) (striking down graduation prayer), and trying to put them in an understandable intellectual context. When you read the article with this in mind, it becomes painfully obvious that she’s offering an intellectual justification for the outcomes in those cases — both of which are anathema to conservatives. Maybe she’s walked away from those views now, but there’s nothing conservative about them.
Second, look carefully at her embrace of the language of the Left in her description of the debate about the protection of the unborn. “Attempt to once again criminalize abortion,” “decide for herself” — those are loaded characterizations. Conservatives who find this kind of language disturbing should not be dismissed as being in a “snit” as the White House spokesperson suggests.