It didn't take long for
certain Democrats to jump right up Bush's ass with their lips all a-pucker, and defend Harriet Miers.
Some Senate Democrats are jumping in the middle of a Republican fray to defend Harriet Miers from conservative criticism that she isn't qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. That doesn't mean Democrats will vote to approve President Bush's longtime confidante for the high court or give her an easy time at a Senate confirmation hearing.
Behind the scenes, a half-dozen aides to Senate Democrats - speaking on condition of anonymity to protect their jobs - admit that they are enjoying watching the GOP's right wing beat up the president. None will say whether their bosses feel the same way - or might be insincere when they heap praise on Miers and call her critics unfair.
This is just over the top. What are these Democrats thinking? Do they even realize they're still Democrats? I wonder...
Bush has said there is no one in the country MORE QUALIFIED than Miers to be on the Supreme Court, which is the purest of bullshit, but some Dems seem to agree with Bush's choice, and further, are out there expressing blatently phony outrage at conservatives who are bitching about Miers.
"All the trashing is coming from the right wing of the Republican Party," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said in a conference call with reporters. "I really think it's despicable what they're doing."
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., accused critics of Miers' nomination of being "incredibly sexist."
"They're saying a woman who was one of the first to head up a major law firm with over 400 lawyers doesn't have intellectual heft," Mikulski said. "I find this a double standard."
The worst so far has to be Democratic Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who said of Miers,"I like what I hear so far."
Please, please, tell me he's kidding.
And the loony toons continue:
Galling to many conservatives is that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada recommended that Bush nominate Miers and has praised her several times since then without actually promising to vote for her.
Galling to conservatives? If it's galling to conservatives, this then accounts for how I'm feeling about it right now. Outraged doesn't begin to cover it. What are these Democrats planning to do - vote to put Miers on the bench, as some kind of political cheap shot to Republicans who are against her nomination?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I suspect that one day, very soon, my head is just going to fall off my body from sheer exhaustion...