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I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country. Unfortunately for Bush, he could nominate his Scottish terrier Barney, and some conservatives would rush to defend him, claiming to be in possession of secret information convincing them that the pooch is a true conservative and listing Barney's many virtues – loyalty, courage, never jumps on the furniture ... Harriet Miers went to Southern Methodist University Law School, which is not...

Harriet Miers is the whipping boy for Bush's mistakes Promptly at 8 a.m. Monday, President Bush announced his next appointee for the Supreme Court. By 9 a.m. the nominee had been denounced as a crony, too unknown and too lightweight. The dead-on-arrival pronouncements came not from the usual caustic acronyms of the left — NARAL, NOW, PFAW — but from the right. Conservative cannibalism had begun. The left enjoyed the entertainment. Why not? Politics often is NASCAR, and people hang around to see who crashes. The workaday Dale Earnhardts have their Jeff Gordon president in their sights. This is not...