The Hypocrisy of the right part........

Well the radical wingnuts are demanding that Harriet Miers answer the very same questions that were off limits during the Roberts nomination. At least one conservative recognizes the hypocrisy:
Captain's Quarters

When members of the Democratic caucus used religion, disguising it as they did, to filibuster people like John Roberts and Janice Rogers Brown for their staunch Catholocism, everyone knew it -- and we Republicans rightly called them out for conducting religious tests for office. Well, religious tests work both ways. One cannot eat their cake and have it too on questions of faith as prerequisites for office. Either it's off limits and no one uses religious affiliations to deny or promote candidates, or we start having open wars over the nature and truth of religion on every candidate sent for Senatorial confirmation.

Do we really want to use Congress for this kind of debate? No; it will take an already divisive process and start the kind of debilitating social stress that the Founders wanted to avoid in Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution. Congress does not exist to pursue the True Religion or the Meaning of Creation; it exists to provide rules of law that the Executive enforces and that the Judiciary considers when ruling on cases brought before it.

If Miers' evangelicalism remains the top selling point of her nomination, then I submit that the White House has already lost this battle. They need to stop promoting religion as a legitimate point of consideration on Miers' curriculum vitae, or else conservative nominations will face nothing less than an Inquisition on every confirmation -- an Inquisition endorsed by the foolishness of short-sighted conservatives.