Mr. Bushachev, tear down this nomination!

From confirmthem.com:


Here’s Peggy Noonan this morning, summing up the situation of the White House vs. its detractors, and how the Miers nomination could be gracefully withdrawn:

One senses that the critics will gain, as they’ve been gaining, and that the White House is on the losing side. If the administration had a compelling rationale for Harriet Miers’s nomination, they would have made it. Simply going at their critics was not only destructive, it signaled an emptiness in their arsenal. If they had a case they’d have made it. “You’re a sexist snob” isn’t a case; it’s an insult, one that manages in this case to be both startling and boring. . . .

You don’t say, “Vote for this gal because she’s an Evangelical!” That shows a carelessness, an inability to think it through, to strategize, to respectfully approach serious facts–failings that, if they weren’t typical of the White House the past few months, might be called downright sexist.
(Thanks to Laura Ingraham for the heads up.)