Miers nomination gives wingnuts a wedgie

Too bad they don't get to vote on it. GOP senators, though, may be reluctant to piss off the base. The Post:

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.

They really think that because they suckered enough voters to gain control of the government, that affirms their extremism. Such hubris is really unbecoming. The crack-up cometh.