"Well, we've never backed off from a fight with this Congress or
any other Congress. ..." This was the Vice President's response to
Rush Limbaugh in discussing the perception that perhaps the Miers
nomination was to avoid a fight with Senate Democrats.
The problem is, the Vice President is just wrong. The White
House promised a veto of the transporation bill, then punted. The
White House had an opportunity to take a more market-oriented
Katrina recovery approach and turned it into the New New Deal. The
White House was told by more than a dozen Republican Senators that
they would fight hard for a Scalia-type conservative Supreme Court
nominee this time around, and instead they get someone who looks
like an also-ran in a Norma Desmond lookalike contest.
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