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Conservatives Confront Bush Aides

Sort of looks like the FDR Republican President and his Kool-aid vendors still have a lot of work to do to get the GOP base on board - assuming that they have any concern about even bothering to do so at this point.

The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president's envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings. A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course of several hours of sometimes testy exchanges, the dissenters complained that Miers was an unknown quantity with a thin résumé and that her selection -- Bush called her "the best person I could find" -- was a betrayal of years of struggle to move the court to the right.

Although the Chief is still trying to be optimistic about the appointment, none of this exactly gives a warm glow. All there is is a (hopefully not forlorn) hope that Ms. Miers ultimately proves to be a sound constitutional originalist. Unfortunately, all there is is that hope...but not much substance at this point.

Tim Blair will be on Hoist the Black Flag tomorrow. That ought to be good. Replays throughout the day if you're like me and can't listen at work....

From NewsMax: The mood was unpleasant, a source familiar with that grand jury's proceedings tells the Associated Press. The source revealed that Earle tried to convince the grand jurors that DeLay had guilty knowledge of a money laundering conspiracy by...

Happy St. Francis Day. This graduate of St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School has fond memories of October 4, as students we'd spend that day doing nothing but playing games. One thing we'd do is attach a note to a...

Howard Fineman:With George W. Bush?s presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you?d think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power. But, in a roomful of well-connected Democrats the other night,...

I've got the laptop right here with me on the couch, but I seem much more satisfied just sitting on my ass and watching the Braves (gag me) spank the Astros tonight. It's cool outside. It's October. There's baseball on...

It's currently 37° (and dropping). It's raining. It's going to turn somewhat white before morning, according to the weather. A chance of early "flurries" tomorrow. We certainly need the moisture, but we don't need the white stuff. I don't need...

Merkel set to take over as German leader

The outcome of the German election cycle has been hidden by the nacht und nebel (night & fog) of political warfare. The final tipping of the balance apparently came after the completion of a special election which resulted in victory for the CDU candidate.

Christian Democrat leader Angela Merkel is set to replace Gerhard Schröder as Germany's next chancellor, in a political deal that will see the departure of Mr Schröder from the national political stage, senior members of the ruling Social Democrats have told the Financial Times.

Auf wiedersehen Herr Schroder. You won't be missed by the Chief.

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