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Not even 48 hours after the fact, it is nigh well impossible to add novelty to the huge volume of learned, insightful and eloquently expressed conservative perspective responses to the president's latest, utterly jarring SCOTUS nomination, with one possible exception, and even it has been at least hinted at in some corners.

The "it" that I'm talking about is the almost lustful yearning that many hundreds of thousands of us have unapologetically harbored for years to see Robert Bork avenged, courtesy of a flat-out, frenzied Steel Cage Death Match style confirmation hearing, live and in color from the hallowed floor of the Senate, ending in the 51-49 approval of, say, a J. Michael Luttig, as that intellectual giant, Scalia-like orator and trench warrior of conservatism casts a triumphal gaze and emphatic expectorant at the prone, bloated and bloodied remains of Ted Kennedy while striding victoriously away, leaving the groveling likes of Arlen Specter and John McCain to the uncertain mercy of Sam Brownback.

p>I dare say that the Senate scrutiny of Harriet Miers will not quite fill the bill. Mind you, it's been widely reported that she's a very nice lady, and I have no reason to doubt it. Hell, I'll bet she even likes cats. br> -- Francis M. Hannon, Jr. br> Melrose, Massachusetts br> P.S. Dear Mr. (Federal Bureau of) Investigator, The above is intended to be taken metaphorically only; that is, the part about Ms. Miers' affinity for cats. /p>

The nomination of Harriet Miers seems to have thrilled the Republican base with the sound of a soft Bronx cheer and the cacophony of one handed applause instead of a high five.

p>I am personally baffled. With the screw job the Republicans have given us here in Pennsylvania in pandering to Fast Eddy and lining their own pockets, the gutless leadership in the Senate, and now this, why did we vote for these people and why did we work so hard? Democrats could only be marginally worse. br> -- GMS br> Media, Pennsylvania /p>

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