The greatest weapon that President Bush has is liberals' 
    unquestioning belief in his abject stupidity, which has 
    helped him in the effort to undo years of leftist 
    subversion of America, which includes the spread of what 
    we now call "legislating from the bench." Every other day 
    Bush stands in front of liberals and sends them the same 
    powerful right hook, and every day they look left. So let 
    the beaten decide: Either President Bush is among the 
    shrewdest politicians in history, or it is the liberals 
    who are the stupid ones. 

    So why was this morning's nomination of Harriet Miers so 
    brilliant? Because for the second time, Bush chose not a 
    rightist per se, but a Constitutional constructionist 
    (which is to say, a rightist).

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    What our extremely intelligent President is doing is 
    trying to recreate a Supreme Court that, in the context 
    of its role, has no interest in politics, but only in 
    judging. Go for it, libs! It's a novel idea that some 
    other smart guys—far superior in intelligence than any of 
    our modern politicians—conjured up over 200 years ago. 
    The truth is, both Scalia and Thomas are not that much 
    further right than Roberts or Miers (though some would 
    not agree), and I'm not sure it's all that important, 
    anyway. What is important is that they all share a common 
    goal, which is to judge and not legislate.