Goodbye Harriet

It's not "Fitzmas" yet (bloggerism for indictments from Fitzgerald), but at least Harriet Miers has removed herself from consideration. Fun. My right wing friend Todd (he won't appreciate that characterization, but it's my blog), predicted it perfectly (maybe being correct makes up for my insult). It's odd, I keep hearing this spun as the Bush administration capitulated to the extreme right or the religious right, but objections to Meirs nomination had also come from very mainstream conservatives like George Will and William Kristol. I'm sort of puzzled about what to make of all this (the objections of these different kinds of conservatives and the spin from liberals), but the bottom line is, Bush looks bad, so I'm happy about that.