So Lady Harriet is gone.

Or at least not on the way to join the Supremes.

Rush says that she should have been gone because she showed a weak president. As a political animal, this was an obvious disappointment to Rush; who favors a strong pres. While I do enjoy listening to Rush, his analysis on this is probably the worst spin I’ve heard on this. If we want a conservative president to be stronger than a liberal congress – then I’d buy it. But strong liberal presidents going along with strong liberal congresses? No quite.

The “conservative” credentials for W are long gone. There is no real reason for anyone to want him to be strong at all. Miers was a weak nominee for a weak president. Roberts was too. And we have yet to see how the weak Roberts will play out. Whether he ends up being the next Scalia or Thomas will be quite by accident as nobody, not even the president, knows what he will do.

The withdrawal of Miers gives the president another opportunity to fulfill his campaign promise to appoint a strict constructionist, an originalist. I pray he does so.

God Bless.