Stand back for a minute and let this filter in - since when were the GOP going to let stealth tactics go by the wayside. She's part of an unbelievable fraud being perpetrated on the American people.

Democrats need to think independently - there is a person here whose recent specialty was covering up documents , who has been handpicked without a record to go on the supreme court. No record in existence whatsoever..

or is there..

They make votes disappear. They make unindicted citizens disappear. They make money disappear. Is there nothing wrong with this giant black box? "I" have more reason to trust Kim Il Jung than "I" do to trust what's-her-face. If "progressives" are so deluded as to support what's-her-face, "I" may soon need to find "something else" to call "myself."

These messages are paid for by Simon Rosenbergs 200 million dollar "Think Tank"... kinda like Armstrong Williams.

...of course it is much more effective when the Dems and GOP are working together... which they are in the case of Miers.

Lets recap.

1. Its the personal lawyer of George W Bush
   
2. Dobson endorses her
   
3. Her employees hid documents about roberts

1. She's been in charge of the process just like Cheney (the stealth appt. with these all time greats: bullying the CIA to falsify data so that they could go to war in iraq, no bid contracts for haliburton and claiming Gitmo is a island paradise for the detainees on national news..)
   
2. We've got nothing on anyone, and least of all her (could there be a relationship.. between what we don't know about a nominee and who is shredding the docs?)
   
3. She exalts George W. Bush.

Meirs gave $1000 to Gore in 1988. This is making wingnuts heads explode one by one as they learn this little fact. According to the official story she started swinging to the Right when she became born again in 1979. Well she seems to have backslid a little. We know she gave money to Gore and Lloyd Bentson. The amounts were chump change for a wealthy lawyer and if these were just two incidents in a sea of political money for Republicans around the same time you could dismiss it as meaningless, time for a little research by the good folk at turthout.org.

And an inconvenient fact. We have a wealthy, highly successful woman who reached 60 without getting married. At a minimum we have a woman who doesn't fit well with the Concerned Women of America  paradigm (top headlines on their site today: "Nothing can replace Mom's care" and "CWA: Wait and See on Supreme Court Nominee" which managed to raise their enthusiasm to the tepid point that produced this:

 "We give Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt because thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution," said Jan LaRue, CWA's chief counsel. "Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process," LaRue added."

You got to love the "thus far"

And we have to look at the calender. Meirs may end up to be a compliant, down the line consistently conservative reliable vote. But she is sixty. Would you rather replace her with a younger, more brilliant Michael Luttig? With a known record that should make your hair curl?

We know Meirs is a Bush loyalist. We also know she is a pretty sharp lawyer admired by her peers. But Bush will be gone in a little over three years while Meirs will be sitting in a lifetime appointment. We can expect, or least hope, that her perspective will change when she becomes a fully independent agent.

This woman has been at Bush's side for years and years, she may be the most private person in the world but surely the Wingnuts must have some idea of where she stands and yet by and large they are freaking.

It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at the American Heritage Fellows lunch room. Because the last time an American President sent a strong never married woman lawyer to fill a top post the Janet/Hillary jokes started flowing like water. Republican women are supposed to produce two kids (at least) and then spend the rest of their lives looking up adoringly at their strong, manly husband. Well like Condi the only man Harriet is looking up adoringly at is George, which may or may not say much about either but has to be a little discomfiting to that wing of the Republican Party that believes a family is a man, a wife, a passel of kids (and discrete liasons with box turtles (tip of the hat to Senator Conryn)).

He doesn't care if he screw cons.  He isn't truly bothered if he helps liberals.

My bet is that both Robert and Meier are going to be Anthony Kennedy justices.

Seing who they replace, that means the court has gone further left under Bush, with only two true-blooded cons on the bench now.

The other point -- most of our pleasure is from the right wing melt down, at not getting a Scalia clone. They feel betrayed, and are turning on Dubya like never before.

In the end, Harriet Wendell Holmes may turn out to be Harriet Carswell -- another footnote in the history of Supreme Court nominees who were never confirmed. In the meantime, we are all enjoying the spectacle of the wing nuts eating their own.