Because some people, besides the ones I mentioned before, have some very good posts up discussing why we should stand behind the President's nomination of Ms. Miers.
I like Dafydd ab Hugh's discussion the best (Miers as the Gipper is a bit much, but I see his point), but the Daisy Cutter has a post up about Marvin Olasky's support for Ms. Miers. James Lewis has an article up at the American Thinker. The Conservative Cat says this infighting is a "SERIOUS PROBLEM."
Beth, from MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, posted a lovely rant (it's in the comments - and delicious!). Jay at Stop the ACLU thinks that a lot of anti-Miers conservatives are completely overreacting. Don Surber says that the Right Blogosphere has jumped the shark.
So where do I stand? Hell if I know. However, all these fizzley fireworks and histrionics from "my" side of the blogosphere bears disturbing resemblance to the theatrics of (*shudder*) the Democratic Cesspool Underground.
Then again, I'm pretty much a peace-loving, live-and-let-live kind of person (no, really - you should meet me in real life!), and all this heated rhetoric from the "rational" side of the aisle is... disappointing and irritating.
(Obligatory whine: Can't we all just get along?! [/sarc])
I'm firmly on the fence, and adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
UPDATE - and, of course, these very fine bloggers are also good to read:
- the brilliant Beldar (here and here, and here, and... oh, just go to his homepage!)
- my blog-brother, Rick Moran - "I’ll admit to being extremely ambiguous about the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court. That said, I have no intention of joining the crop of conservatives who insist on quaffing kool-aid over the nomination by hoping to either block her or, more problematically, have the President break down and actually withdraw her name from consideration."
- my blog-sister (or is she my blog-mommy?) the clever, combative Cao - "I am ashamed of conservatives who are beginning to sound, look, act and use the rhetoric of leftists."
- RealClear Politics: "Before we can judge how the President played his hand, we have to consider what kind of hand he had to play. It was a weak hand -- and the weakness was in the Republican Senators.Does this mean that Harriet Miers will not be a good Supreme Court justice if she is confirmed? It is hard to imagine her being worse than Sandra Day O'Connor -- or even as bad."
- and Power Line, here, here, and here .
I'm not saying - at all - that any of these bloggers are over the moon with joy about Harriet Miers. But they do tend to display sober restraint and consideration of the man we elected.
Again, I'm doing the wait-and-see.
Hmmm..
