Gee. What a surprise!

[herveus]

Howdy!

So yesterday I hear Sen. Brownbeck offering commentary on Harriet Miers. He was concerned about her potential for judicial activism.

*snort*

Brownbeck is one of many senators who should just Shut Up about judicial activism (unless they are endorsing it). He voted to confirm Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Circuit Court. Given her avowed penchant for judicial activism, why did he vote to confirm her?

Oh, right. Silly me. Her activism is the "right kind" I guess. It's only "liberal" activism that is verboten.

Of course, now that Miers has withdrawn her nomination, the point is moot for the moment.

yours,
Herveus

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I has heard that he chose Miers becuase she was on a list that Harry Reid had forwarded to him of people who stood a resonable chance of nut turing the Senate hearings into a circus. Either Reid's a genius at causing problems for the White House or every totaly underestimated the strength of the reaction to her by the GOP base.

Hopefully the next name we hear isn't Luttig or Brown. I can't even begin to imagine the firestorm if one of them were nominated.