“You shall make no graven image or any likeness of anything in heaven or earth, nor bow down to any such thing.” Over the past few days, Keith Olbermann has been highlighting the revelations (video here and here) in David Kuo’s new book about the cynical exploitation of the religious right: In the book, Kuo, …
Take The Week-end Off, Hugh
Hugh Hewitt continues his rearguard defense of the now dead Miers nomination, and writes: Everyone can say it isn’t raining where they live, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t raining in a lot of places. Professor Adler needs to go back to The Corner’s archive, to October 3, and start reading. (I can’t find the …
Time To Strangle Another Meme
Hugh Hewitt writes: Let me be the first to say that whomever the president nominates, he or she deserves an up-or-down vote in the Senate. The clear implication, of course, is that somehow the principle of an ‘up-or-down’ vote for judges was dismissed or ignored during the Miers affair, and that folks like me acted …
Miers Withdraws
The wire is reporting that Miers has withdrawn her nomination, and that is not surprising, considering she neglected to return her questionnaire revisions to the Senate last night. The President has ‘reluctantly’ accepted her withdrawal, and Red State has the President’s statement. Personally, I am mad at the White House for this nomination. It was …
I Was Waiting For This
I am not really a big fan Ann Coulter, although I do have a soft spot for people who can, with just a few words, send our friends on the left into fits of apoplexy (Rush Limbaugh comes to mind, Zell Miller is another), but since the moment Harriet Miers was nominated for the Supreme …