Piling On

Like the class weakling kicking sand in the face of the vanquished playground bully, some Democrats are now tut-tutting about the “far right” torpedoing Harriet Miers. “She deserved her day in court,” Mark Shields reliably repeated last night on NewHour, David Brooks in a pink tie smirking nearby. Understandable that the left was cautiously optimistic that she might have become a SCOTUS turncoat, but we really feel bad about missing out on some of the more interesting questions she might have been asked by our fine elected representives in Congress. Like: “So have you ever actually been inside a courtroom–say even a municipal family court?” Or, “How do you feel about the President of the US placing personal loyalty above the welfare of the nation he supposedly stewards?” (Good followup: “To your knowledge, has the president fired Michael Brown yet? Or, for that matter, anyone in his entire administration, ever?”