Why Miers will NOT win

Here's the latest attempt at shining up this presidential bowel movement:

Stunned by conservative opposition to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, President Bush next week will bring in former judges from her home state of Texas to trumpet her qualifications for the nation’s highest court.

The event is part of an administration effort to refine its push for Miers after its initial strategy failed to quiet vocal opposition from members of the president’s own party. The Republican critics, who suggest Bush passed over candidates with long records of conservative rulings from the bench, say that if the White House strategy continues to amount to a “trust me” message, they’ll continue to grumble.

She's not getting on the bench even if "conservatives" change their minds, for the following reason: Bush's strategy clearly shows he gets judicial conservatism (restraint & respect for original intent) and political "conservatism" (belief that the bible somehow trumps the Constitution) confused. Because of that disconnect, he's attempting to sell her to his party base by winks-and-nods that she's a religious nut -- which if they buy into will turn the Democrats sharply against & make any middle-of-the-road types join them in opposition.

You don't know paranoia...

...until you've read someone accidentally stepping on your lawn as an attempt to have you overthrown:

The American ambassador to Zimbabwe has been accused of attempting to provoke "regime change" after straying into a military zone close to the residence of the country's President, Robert Mugabe.

Ambassador Christopher Dell found himself looking down the wrong end of a gun as he was held at bayonet and gunpoint for more than one-and-a-half hours by the presidential guard after walking up a restricted hill at the National Botanical Gardens. The hill overlooks one of President Mugabe's official residences, located about a mile away.

The American embassy said the ambassador had inadvertently walked into the poorly marked military area while in the gardens last Monday.

Wow. Really nothing more to say to that...

dumbest question ever

Saw this on "The Situation Room" a moment ago, as one of Jack Cafferty's questions...

5 p.m. ET: Does it matter if Saddam Hussein votes on the Iraqi constitution?

Was he on crack when he came up with that one?

New links

Recently added to the Blogroll:

-"Booker Rising", a site of news & views for all strains of Right-leaning blacks. Give it a looksee, wouldja?

-Brendan Nyhan, formerly of Spinsanity. This was a no-brainer.

-"Freemans Burden". That burden would be "remaining free", btw...

...and D.C. HATES surprises

Orin Kerr, from Glenn, finds gleeful speculation on Miers...

To get to the meat of this all, the "process" that itself got her nominated will be the pole that broke the stripper's implants, according to John Fund:

Here's the question you have to ask the White House. Please explain to me, with specifics, how, since Harriet Miers was in charge of the vetting process for the Supreme Court nominee, since she ended up being picked herself, please explain to me exactly how much vetting was done, who did the vetting, and to what extent the vetting that was done on her was different, or the same as it would have been for any other nominee? You need to get the answers to those questions, because I have to tell you. I have gotten information on the vetting that was done with her. And frankly, it doesn't past muster for even a district court appointment.

Eh, whatever, long as she gets torpedoed.