Another reason Miers made the right decision

From here:

Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader, on the Senate floor: "The radical right wing of the Republican Party drove this woman's nomination right out of town."

Douglass: "The Republican Chairman of the Judiciary Committee said the groups drowned her and the President out."

Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, on the Senate floor: "There was a decisive imbalance in the public forum with the case for Ms. Miers not heard because of the heavy decibel level against her."

Well, when you get Harry Ried and Arlen Specter up in arms upon the withdrawal of a Republican-appointed SCOTUS nominee, you gotta be doing something right.

Douglass: "Republican Senators who publicly criticized Miers believe the President has now gotten the message that his supporters expect him to pick an established conservative judge. Many conservatives say it is time for a confrontation over abortion, gay marriage and school prayer."

No it isn't a time for "confrontation" over abortion, marriage, or school prayer. It is time for a "confrontation" over legislating from the bench. It is time for a confrontation over the adding of things to the Constitution that aren't there, as well as a confrontation over the ignoring things in the Constitution that are there. When this confrontation ultimately takes place, and an originalist philosophy hopefully takes hold in the Supreme Court, past and future SCOTUS-driven "social engineering" decisions will be overturned by virtue of their Constitutional incompatibility, and such decisions will be left back to the individual states, where the power to make those decisions should necessarily reside.

The genius of the original wording and intent of the Constitution resides in the fact that the Constitution is in and of itself a moral and just framework for governance. Adherence to the Constitution in making and in interpreting law will in and of itself lead to a moral and just society.

Get originalists on the Supreme Court. The rest will take care of itself.