Hurricane Harriet Downs Power Lines Across Beltway (How did this run out of control so fast?)
BY DANIEL HENNINGER
OpinionJournal.com
With Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court, George Bush has touched off a conservative hurricane that is snapping political power lines across the Beltway as this is written. On Wednesday, the anti-Bush tempest blew into the Senate, which by a 90-9 margin voted to impose Marquess of Queensberry rules on interrogations of terrorist detainees. All those Republican defections mean that the first clear victim of the Miers nomination is the president's freedom to wage war on terror. There will be others.
How did this run out of control so fast?
OpinionJournal.com
With Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court, George Bush has touched off a conservative hurricane that is snapping political power lines across the Beltway as this is written. On Wednesday, the anti-Bush tempest blew into the Senate, which by a 90-9 margin voted to impose Marquess of Queensberry rules on interrogations of terrorist detainees. All those Republican defections mean that the first clear victim of the Miers nomination is the president's freedom to wage war on terror. There will be others.
How did this run out of control so fast?
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