I don't know about you, but I'm loving the Bush administration squirming to have to frantically bolster Harriet Miers anti-abortion credentials, which in turn causes Democratic centrists like Feinstein to have to distance themselves from the possibility of supporting Miers.
I don't know what it all means ultimately about Miers chances at confirmation (could Bush really lose the far right on a confirmation vote?) and I'm not sure it'll result in anything good, but for now, it's quite riveting theater and no matter how you hoist it, his petard has been hooked--what is a "petard", anyway?
Petard: A small bombshell; Injured by his own devices against others.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm assuming it was a rhetorical question, and resisting the urge to make a very UN PC statement about Bush that rhymes w/ Petard.
"Petard" from the French, "to break wind" again, wholly appropriate to the context.
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