The Slouching Supreme Court: Part 13 - So long and thanks for all the officiousness

This is no surprise. I have parroted the works of Krauthammer and Kristol, who were dead-on with their analyses of the Miers controversy. Who knows what sort of ally the right would have had in Miers, but that was part of the problem.

WASHINGTON — Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice Thursday in the face of stiff opposition and mounting criticism about her qualifications.

An interesting sidenote is the title of the series of posts (The Slouching Supreme Court). I derived the name as a double play on words - first from my condrade Queen Spoo's series of posts here (The Shifting Supreme Court) and second from the title of Robert Bork's excellent book from a few years back, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah". I was last night reading an equally excellent opinion piece by Bork, "Slouching Towards Miers". While I could argue that Bork was influenced by me in the title of his article, I reason it far more probable he was influenced by himself in this regard. ;-)