From reader emails, it seems there were more than a few who took my comments yesterday about Miers to mean that I think that Dems should support her. I’m not sure how that meaning got across. But if it did, mark it down as my not being clear enough when I was thinking out loud.
My point was to note the real possibility that Miers could be knocked out only to be replaced by a genuine extremist who would likely be voted through without much difficulty by Senate Republicans.
Extremist versus hacklicious toady, sort of sums up the choices that may be on offer.
Along those lines, Sen. Lott now puts himself down as leaning against.
