It's time to play taps for the Miers nomination

Let's face it, George Bush is not going to have a good week. Between Brent Scowcroft and his own father blasting his foreign policy and the Plamegate saga coming to a close it's going to be tough. And now there is virtually zero support for his SCOTUS nomination, Harriet Miers. Some commentary today:

• George F. Will

  Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it.

  Tell us what you really think George.


• Jonah Goldberg

  THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF



• WSJ Opinion Journal

  Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks. Yet it now seems clear--even well before her Senate hearings--that this selection has become a political blunder of the first order.

And that's what Dubya's friends are saying. Well there are hints he may be listening. From the right wing Washington Times:
Insiders see hint of Miers pullout

The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday.
"White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people, saying, 'We're not discussing pulling out her nomination, but if we were to, do you have any advice as to how we should do it?' " a conservative Republican with ties to the White House told The Washington Times.

As we discussed here earlier, George W. Bush is finding out that it's hell when you go from being an asset to a liability.

Note
For the record and n.z.bear's survey; I oppose the Miers nomination