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 …
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The wire is reporting that Miers has withdrawn her nomination, and that is not surprising, considering she neglected to return her questionnaire revisions to the Senate last night.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 …
Eight Years of Epic Fail
If you have a few minutes, take the moment to go read Brad Reed’s “The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency:” Narrowing down the Bush administration’s various debacles to a mere 10 was no easy feat. In fact, I expect that many people will express dismay that their least favorite moment was …
Quote of the Day
I didn’t see Romney’s speech, but Hugh Hewitt did. I wonder if he liked it. Let’s check: Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech was simply magnificent, and anyone who denies it is not to be trusted as an analyst. On every level it was a masterpiece. The staging and Romney’s delivery, the eclipse of all …
Best and Worst of Everything
Kevin Drum is feeling ornery, and is asking for submissions of the five worst blog posts ever (and, I suppose, the five best). Throw your nominees in the comments. Let’s see what we can come up with, and let’s do the worst first. Five WORST: 1.) My first selection is Ann Althouse video wineblogging, but …
Why Rove Failed
I see a lot of catcalling going on regarding Karl Rove’s inability to forge a permanent Republican majority, and I notice that a number of people are crediting Rove with tactical mastery and strategic inadequacy. Maybe, but in my opinion, the real problem is Rove and company’s complete reliance on gutter politics. If you look …
“GoneZo”
The Gonzales resignation watch continues, and we move one step closer to his departure with the admission that ‘mistakes’ were made: Under criticism from lawmakers of both parties for the dismissals of federal prosecutors, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales insisted Tuesday that he would not resign but said, “I acknowledge that mistakes were made here.” …