Dum Pendebat Filius

1. If you didn’t happen to catch commenter Jason’s remarks on the post entitled “Harriet Miers dropped the ball,” you ought to check them out. (You could do worse than to check out his promising new blog while you’re at it, too.)

2. Miers, an unqualified nominee, has dropped out. I opposed her nomination, because I tend to agree with Jason’s remark:

Frankly, I’d rather have a right wing or left wing advocate who UNDERSTANDS the Constitution and the history of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution than a moderate who doesn’t have a clue.

So, this development is all for the best. There was little to no chance Miers would have made it through the confirmation process, and this whole thing was a temporary distraction from my next point:

3. I suspect we should start preparing ourselves to say goodbye to Roe v. Wade. This would probably have been the case even with a Supreme Court Justice Miers, to be sure; but now that the Miers distraction is done with, it’s time to start preparing for this. It was inevitable, of course; everyone knew that Bush’s second term in office would give him the opportunity to put at least two new justices on the Supreme Court. Who can we thank for this? Here’s who:

• Everyone who voted for Bush because Kerry was too “French,” too “haughty,” and/or too “soft on terrorism/homeland security,” despite their misgivings about Bush and his administration.
• A special individual shout-out goes to the execrable Zell Miller. “This old Marine” sees scary Arab terrorists lurking behind every tree, lamppost, and mailbox down in Georgia, and joins the GOP in wanting you to see them, too. His speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention will long be remembered for its dishonesty and its brilliant distillation of the weakling-Kerry, “Bushie waged war on ‘em” meme:
  

  George W. Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip.

  From John Kerry, they get a “yes-no-maybe” bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends.

  I first got to know George W. Bush when we served as governors together. I admire this man. I am moved by the respect he shows the First Lady, his unabashed love for his parents and his daughters, and the fact that he is unashamed of his belief that God is not indifferent to America.

  I can identify with someone who has lived that line in “Amazing Grace,” “Was blind, but now I see,” and I like the fact that he’s the same man on Saturday night that he is on Sunday morning.

  He is not a slick talker but he is a straight shooter, and where I come from deeds mean a lot more than words.

  I have knocked on the door of this man’s soul and found someone home, a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel — the man I trust to protect my most precious possession: my family.

• The Democratic party, the DNC, and the Kerry campaign, for their absolutely pathetic performance in Campaign 2004. Nice job responding to the Swift Boat smear campaign, guys and gals. Good work. You knew what was at stake, and you blew it. You blew it.

The Democratic Party is useless, readers. Useless.