I am most assuredly not a legal scholar, so I will apologize ahead of time for any major fielding errors that I make here, but there are a couple of things about the current Supreme Court shenanigans that may give us some hope down the road.
Firstly, as to Miers' judicial philosophy, who cares? Of COURSE Reid recommended Miers to Bush: she is going to be another albatross hanging around the neck of that Grand Old Elephant for at least the next fifteen years, and Reid knows it. One albatross is bearable, but there are now enough of them to where the big grey beast is lumbering around with a decidely kitchy level of avian bling bling on display.
The dirty little secret (which isn't really a secret, because I know about it, and pretty much all my inside information comes from Wikipedia) is that the Republicans aren't going to be in power long enough to make use of anything that Miers does. Miers is welcome to vote however she wishes to vote, and two things could well happen as a result: first, the congress can do what they are fully entitled to do, which is to neuter the Supreme Court. It could do this quite easily by a process known as packing. There is nothing in the constitution that sets forth the number of judges who will sit on the supreme court, and my remembrance is that the case setting forth the supreme court's right of judicial review on constitutionality was made on a 4-0 decision, so clearly we've had far fewer than the current number of judges, and we've also had over a number of years 10 judges seated on the court. The next Democratic cycle in Washington should begin with our majority senate sending the clear signal that they are all strict judicial "originalists" and that because of that, they are impeaching 5 of the 9 judges in order to return us to an earlier, happier time in our nation's history. Either that, or do what Roosevelt threatened to do and put 4 or 5 members of the next Democratic president's staff on the court to help shift the ideological rightward drift. Well, just some thoughts here. Don't despair. We can always fight the perverts with perversion. That would probably make an excellent motto, if I knew how to translate it into Latin.