The gang at NRO's The Corner has come up with the multiple meanings of "Getting Miered":
1. Good --
To put your own allies in the most untenable position possible based upon exceptionally bad decsion making.
2. Better --
While steadlily going in reverse in the driveway of your own home, intentionally abruptly pressing gas pedal as to crash into garage door for no apparent reason.
3. Best --
Getting used to everyone hating you except your core supporters and thinking what the hell, it'd be cool to see what it's like to have everyone hate you at same time.
I think the NRO crowd perverts the analogy by shifting the blame:
ReplyDeleteto get Borked---to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent
to get Miered---unscrupulously torpedoed by an ally
to Mier---whining about getting what you want but not the way you want it
Nothing unscrupulous about it, Tom. There's a track record with regard to the S. Ct. that fully warrants skepticism.
ReplyDeleteSkepticism is fine, altho I'm not quite sure of which track record you're speaking of.
ReplyDeleteBut who do Miss Peggy, et al., think they are, demanding the president withdraw Miz Miers?
I mean, Borking your own seems a violation of Reagan's 11th Commandment, or something.
It's not borking. No one has attempted to distort her record. She is not accused of anything other than of not being up to the standard many expect and being far from the best card we could play. It's a tragedy that she has to stand in the middle of this thing like a human shield. I continually regret that there is a person suffering in the middle of what is really an argument about a standard.
ReplyDeleteConnie, I argued a few months ago in this forum that reason 1) was what killed Bork. I agree with your philosophy of law. You should go for Scalia. He fully agrees.
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