A-wishin' and a-hopin' for Armageddon

Yes, it has been enjoyable watching the various factions on the Right rip into their Dear Leader for his choice of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. She's not openly anti-Wade. She may be a closet (gasp) feminist. One or two think she may not be bright enough (though with a Court that includes Clarence Thomas, one can only wonder how the bar is raised and lowered to suit their needs).

I probably shouldn't be surprised by this, but I have been taken aback by the fundies' deepest source of dissatisfaction, not just with Miers, it turns out. The Miers pick, on the heels of the Roberts pick, has robbed them of their most fervent dream -- an all-out battle on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Armageddon.

Bush's failure to look to conservatives on the appellate courts to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor proved to be a massive case of dashed expectations. "The feeling was after John Roberts that surely the president was going to have to go to the bench where there were all these very excellent people who are serving on the circuit court or scholars who have been grooming for this possibility for years and years," said Paul M. Weyrich, a leading voice in the conservative movement and one who has been openly skeptical of Miers.

Weyrich said he had once been told by Justice Clarence Thomas it was important not just to have conservatives on the court, but also conservatives who have "been through the wars and survived." Having won the White House and captured majorities in Congress, conservatives eagerly anticipated a fight in the Senate over a nominee like that and believed Bush would have the stomach for one.

That's why, for all the back tracking, Trent Lott's use of the term "Nuclear Option" was no mistake.

I mean, Jaysus, these people are actually counting the minutes.

But what I find most remarkable about this, these morons gleefully followed Dear Leader into his bloody, criminally negligent, invasion of Iraq, based solely on one argument: "Trust me." For the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice, that's no longer good enough.