Thomas Sowell  and AT Editor Thomas Lifson were right.  The tidal wave of opposition from conservative opinion makers to the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination was wildly misdirected and too emotional in the extreme.  The conservative crackdown on GW over his less—than—ideal — in their eyes — nominee should have acknowledged the realities of a weak Senatorial Republican establishment and the necessity to quickly confirm a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.  Sowell's latest column places the responsibility for postponing the Alito hearings right where it belongs: on the weak Senate Republican leadership.  One would expect that the same conservative columnists who so strongly objected to the Miers nomination, would now start journalistically whacking these Senate milquetoasts about the head and shoulders to get things moving on Judge Alito's confirmation — but one would be wrong. For example, now that David Frum got...(Read Full Post)