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My spirits are considerably lifted. The more I read about Miers, the more I like her (however, this is disappointing). First, Hugh Hewitt provides more calm perspective.

President Bush has beaten the Dems like bongo drums for five plus years, and yet some conservatives are spooked by the fact that Harry Reid and Charles Schumer haven't taken to the Senate floor to announce a attempt at a filibuster. Shouldn't the presumption be --given the record of the past few election cycles-- that the president knows what he is doing? The hearings will be very, very interesting, and Democrats have put themselves in a very small box. It will be unfortunate if conservative loyalists help them out of it by legitimizing attacks on a dedicated and very qualified public servant. My suspicion is that as Democrats review Miers personal story, and especially her obvious and deep personal faith, that "the groups" on the left will realize to their horror that, once again, the president has outflanked them. They may try to marshall their forces and launch an assault on Miers. The trouble with some conservatives declaring the end of the world as we know it is that they are effectively taking themselves out of this battle on the first day.

This is an appetizer for the main course -- now, read Beldar:

By objective standards, Harriet Miers has been among the few dozen most successful lawyers in private practice in the United States. Filter the Y-chromosome bearers out of that group and you're down to a couple dozen or less. Filter that group for significant public and governmental experience and we're down to a very small handful. And filter that small handful for lawyers in whom George W. Bush already has boundless personal confidence from first-hand experience, and your Venn diagram just has a one-member set left: Harriet Miers. Those are not inappropriate criteria, folks. From an overall viewpoint, using any reasonable criteria, she's qualified enough. But using those particular criteria, she's uniquely qualified. Would I have picked her? Probably not. But she hasn't been my lawyer, and I'm not the President. If I were the President, and I wanted to make a safe play — a non-Souteresque woman — I might very well have picked someone like her, though. And so I will happily support this nomination, and I wish Ms. Miers good luck, fortitude, and grace in the confirmation process.

Outstanding piece -- read it in its entirety, and you'll start to get jazzed for the hearings to start. And, lastly, The Anchoress urges us to take the long view.

The right used to love Bush because he was surprising and undaunted, because he made choices from his gut and not from polls or consensus or advice-giving. I wonder if the conservatives right now are truly falling out of love with those qualities, or if they themselves are running a bit scared and tired, believing that Bush is all of the things the press says he is, becasue it’s just easier to do that? Who has actually changed, here? Bush, or us? Goodness, a year ago some on the right were trying to figure out how to amend the constitution to allow Arnold to run for President. Now many of the same folks can’t stand him. Things change. Things turn on a dime. Three more years. A lot can happen. But very little that is pleasing to the right will happen if Bush is completely crippled by the press and deserted by his suddenly-distrustful base. A choice must be made, here. Do you stand by the president, trusting that he knows this woman and is not abandoning his values in nominating her? Or do you go running off, screaming, into the night because you don’t quite get this nomination? Ask yourself if you were one of those folks who also went off screaming into the night a few months ago when John Roberts was nominated? . . . We are in for a long, hard slog. Gird up thy loins.

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