Dr. Masturbation's latest ejaculation explaining his Miers kerfuffle.

Arch-"conservative" Jimmy Dobson explains what happened when the Evil Puppeteer discussed Bush's token (though best qualified in all the land) XX chromosome nominee with him.


And here's what Dobson wants everyone to know:

He insists he did not receive assurances that Miers would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. "It did not happen, period," Dobson said, regardless of what Democrats think.

Dobson says Karl Rove shared Miers "judicial philosophy" with him -- and it was "consistent with the promises that President Bush had made when he was campaigning.

"Dobson said his comment about knowing something that he probably shouldn't know "really wasn't all that tantalizing."

He said he was referring to the fact that Rove had told him on Saturday that Miers was at the top of the short list of names under consideration.

"And as you know, that information hadn't been released yet, and everyone in Washington and many people around the country wanted to know about it and the fact that he had shared with me is not something I wanted to reveal."

Dobson says he and Rove "also talked about something else, and I think this is the first time this has been disclosed. Some of the other candidates who had been on that short list...were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over.

"Well, what Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter, that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it."

That is plausible, as good spin must be. I find it hard to believe Bush could not find a couple hundred brilliant conservative jurists in this country with enough ambition in their bellies to take on the leftist establishment. (Which, BTW, is exactly what we need.)

Of course, if you are wedded to the un-American and immoral belief that O'Connor's seat is a distaff seat in perpetuity as Bush is, your list of potential nominees is severely limited.

Dobson said conservatives who are bemoaning the president's failure to "appoint so-and-so" to the U.S. Supreme Court may not realize that "those individuals didn't want to be appointed." He said Rove didn't name any names. (Thanks to CNSNews.com for the heads up.)