And when Michelle ain't happy...

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

What Julie Myers is to the Department of Homeland Security, Harriet Miers is to the Supreme Court.

Since Malkin's contribution is, as usual, mostly limited to collecting "reax" from around the blogosphere, let's look at one of them. From Red State:

"Mr. President, you've got some explaining to do. And please remember - we've been defending you these five years because of this moment."

Hmm. Doesn't that just speak volumes. In those two sentences, at least one rightwinger completely subverts the party line that Bush is a competent, successful, victorious leader and puts it all out there: He's a worthless incompetent, but he's our worthless incompetent, and he's going to stack the court for us. Just keep covering up his miserable failure, it'll all be worth it when we overturn Roe.

Update: Atrios has his finger on the pulse:

They're angry because this was supposed to be their nomination. This is was their moment. They didn't just want a stealth victory, they wanted parades and fireworks. They wanted Bush to find the wingnuttiest wingnut on the planet, fully clothed and accessorized in all the latest wingnut fashions, not just to give them their desired Court rulings, but also to publicly validate their influence and power. They didn't just want substantive results, what they wanted even more were symbolic ones. They wanted Bush to extend a giant middle finger to everyone to the left of John Ashcroft. They wanted to watch Democrats howl and scream and then ultimately lose a nasty confirmation battle. They wanted this to be their "WE RUN THE COUNTRY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT" moment.