Rush Limbaugh is not happy with Meirs:
Now the Democrats are saying some favorable things about Harriet Miers right now led by Dingy Harry, the Senate leader. He likes her very much. It's almost like he'd like to marry her, he likes her so much, and when you start hearing the president's opponents start talking about this in the way they're talking about it you have to have a red flag go up. Now, there's always the possibility that this is a giant rope-a-dope, too. The president obviously knows this woman very well, and most of us do not and in that sense we're sort of hampered here, and the gut, knee-jerk reaction that I know a lot of people are having today is one that is probably shared by you. But the main reason I don't like this pick has nothing to do with Harriet Miers because I don't know her. I think the pick makes President Bush look weak. I think the pick is designed to avoid more controversy; the pick is designed to appease. I can't tell you how that disappoints me. I can't tell you how it...
I won't say "depresses" me, but people have been working, folks, in the conservative movement for however long you want to go back, 50 years, 30 years, 20 years intently to get to the point here where the opportunity to reshape the court and to take it in a clear originalist direction and to weaken the court as structured by the left, as I've said over and over again, the court is the last refuge for the left. It is where they hope to institutionalize their beliefs and get their beliefs out of the arena of debate. They want liberalism to be institutionalized, made a part of the Constitution so that the American people have no opportunity to debate it, oppose it, elect congressmen and senators to debate it and oppose liberalism and defeat it. The more it gets institutionalize at the highest courts of the land, the greater the chances are that we're stuck with it. Now, all this having been said, the caveat to this is: I don't know this woman. I have no idea. She could end up being fabulous for all anybody knows. That takes me back to, "Why do we have to take the risk? Why do we have to roll the dice?" And some of you say, "Well, Rush, trust the president. The president said he was going to do this, and he's picked a person here that he firmly believes in." Yeah, I know. You want to trust the president. You do, but, folks, there have been too many things that... You look at all the spending. I mean, where is conservatism in the way this government has grown in the last five years? It's not evident. So there's a lot of things here to have a red flag raised about.
A lot of us feel that we're in a war with a left wing that is disintegrating, with a left wing that's impaling itself on extremism, a left wing that is taking the Democratic Party so far over the edge that if we just let them go, and force them over the edge on their own, that they'll take that route, and the nomination after genuine, known conservative originalist of that quality would have, perhaps, pushed them over the edge.
