Who Else is Chillin’? The WaPo, That’s Who
Add the Washington Post editorial board to the ranks of the Chillin’ (and be sure and check out AJ’s Carnival while you’re at it):
TO HEAR THE reaction from some conservatives to President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, you would think the president had named an avowed liberal.
While admitting there are legitimate concerns about the qualifications of Miers, the Post condemns the attitude of conservatives who want a firm assurance on Roe v. Wade as the litmus test that it is:
…it is no more Ms. Miers’s job to promise Mr. Brownback her vote to overturn Roe than it was Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s job to promise Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) his vote to sustain it. Not even the president’s allies are entitled to certainty.
Indeed, I argued in an earlier post that if we adopt the attitude that only a nominee who backs a certain political position is worthy of nomination, we’ve got no moral leg to stand on when the Democrats do the same.
Yet another reason to choose the WaPo over the NY Times…
The Post is kicking butt on the NY Times these days.