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October 27, 2005
"Irrepressible Conflict" Dooms Miers
She's history. Administrations have confronted miserable times, and this one is no different; Miers' evaporation is the disappearance of one particularly vast and unnecessary cloud.
And as unnecessary as it was, the irrepressible conflict between the constitutional prerogatives and duties of the Senate and those of the Presidency represented a truth that Bush either knew of or should have known of when this whole process began. That failure is the only real shock, and the only real embarassment.
But Miers' withdrawal clears the air as well as the path for our new nominee, who will be, one can feel certain, better in every way. Typically one can only seize the initiative by exploiting the setbacks of one's opponents. Here we seize it back from ourselves.
Posted by James G. Poulos at October 27, 2005 09:40 AM
