Blankley on Miers
Tony Blankley, on the Miers nomination:
Of course I would have vastly and justifiably preferred President Bush to have chosen a certain, proven, intellectually formidable legal warrior (of whom he had an abundant choice). But I have to admit on reflection that even with the dull, dutiful Dallas evangel, it is much more likely than not, that 10 years from now she will be voting quite reliably with Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and the one or two more generally conservative justices who George Bush will probably have the chance to place on the court in the remaining three and a third years of his presidency.It could have been so much more. But it is probably enough. And in politics, when we probably get enough — we should be thankful.
Which is why the Democrats this week do not share in glee proportionally with our despond. First, they feared to bite the seemingly guileless, yet cunning, Adonis who Bush first sent up for confirmation. Now they are uncertain how to get their yawning mandibles to grab and hold the hard but slight bones of the president’s meager offering the second time around.
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As in life, so in politics, if one seeks disappointment, one will surely find it. And conservatives have not had to look hard this week to find the gloom. But it is the disappointment of an unrequited ardor, of a not yet fully consummated passion. Such youthful vigor inevitably finds its satisfaction.
Consider, in the alternative, the deeper disappointment that liberals contemplate in this dreary autumn of their aspirations. The last remaining champions of their principles sit aged and infirm on the high bench — their former brilliance now brittle and susceptible to being chiseled and crumbled by even the most modest conservative laborers.
Victory may not be heroic, but it will be ours.
Let’s hope Miers turns out to be a true conservative. And that 85-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens, the most liberal member of the Court, vacates his seat before President Bush’s second term is done.
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