The Miers withdrawal illustrates what Ann Althouse said: “Once people have decided you’re dumb, pretty much everything you say sounds dumb.” Or probably more accurately in this case, once the right wing thinks you’re too liberal for them, everything you say sounds too liberal.
Think Progress reminds us what the media said this withdrawal says about President Bush’s so-called political capital.
Unfortunately, the pressure will really be on Bush to pick a judicial crusader. And as we’ve seen he doesn’t even have the backbone to stand up to his own party.