Matthew Rothschild writes: I'm trying hard to figure out the intensity of the far right's anger about the Harriet Miers nomination. Seems unlikely to me, anyway, that Bush and Cheney and Rove would have picked someone who was not a doctrinaire conservative. So why are the reactionaries reacting so badly? Because Harriet Miers was not one of their tried and true chosen few.

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