Miers: be sure to read George Will's piece at Town Hall. There are way too many on the Right that think this appointment is just flat wrong and this opinion is growing, not going away. Rush did almost twenty minutes on Greta last night----as is usual with FOX there is nothing on their web site, but there is a word for word accounting of her interview with Bill Clinton---and Rush had plenty to say that was very thoughtful. To sum up: he commented on the fear of confrontation as a fear of debate and without debate we never get to issues; he commented about the "culture of the Supreme Court" and how they only talk with each other; and basically said that Miers was a very "soft" candidate. Here's some stuff from Rush's site which he usually removes every few hours:

......a philosophical comment. It's a bit of philosophy that I happen to believe, and it is this: that if you show weakness to your opponents, you encourage them. If you operate from a position of conviction and confidence and strength, then you have a little easier time dealing with your enemies, your opponents, or what have you -- and that's why I just don't like the idea of coming at anything from a position of weakness or a position of being on the defensive. I believe in total offense. We're winning. We won the elections in 2000 and 2004. We added to the majorities from 2000 to 2004, and there's every reason to come out here and be proud of who we are, and proud of what we stand for, and you heard the president say here, "There's not a lot of opinions for people to look at," which is what convinces me that the president here -- and I'm not saying that he personally is weak. I think the position of weakness is that he can't count on his own allies in the Senate for a protracted fight, so he comes up with a nominee that's a small target. There really is nothing anybody can say about her in terms of her opinions because she doesn't have any. She doesn't have any legal opinions that can focus on the special interest groups gonna have to drum up a bunch of stuff that, frankly, is going to offend people, i.e., she's a "lesbian," i.e., she "helped Bush get out of the National Guard."

But his comments regarding the necessity and usefulness of debate is what struck me:

......when it's important to have the debate -- and don't forget why it's important to have the debate. It's just an important to have the debate to cream the left, because in many ways, folks, that's already happened, which was my point. But you have the debate and you have the debate in open for the purposes of continuing the education of the American people as voters, and this is not to imply that they're dumb. It's not that at all. It's just that the Supreme Court -- you all know it. We talk about the O'Connor seat as being the "swing vote." There's no such thing as a swing vote on the court, as it should accurately be working. There's no such thing! There's no such thing as quotas on the court. It's time to have the debate about where the Supreme Court's taking this country and how so many of the issues the court deals with end up being taken out of the legislative process in the arena of ideas and therefore out of the hands of the people. Yeah, as Justice Breyer said in his interview on Sunday: "The Constitution begins with 'we the people.'" Well, the way the court's going, it needs to be rewritten pretty soon, "We the Supreme Court," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and that's not the way this should be!

The quote is very long and check it out before he takes it down.

And for something really stupid about Miers, check out Roger Simon who has this bullshit piece comparing Orson Welles directing a chickenshit fucking movie with a person qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. And 140 people commented. Hey! Hollywood! It takes eight years of school to become a lawyer, a high school drop out can direct a movie. When we all reduce our thinking to this level we get what we think about.