“Harriet Miers is the hair that broke the camel’s back. Despite the flaws I always expected things to eventually work out, and that everything was part of a master plan. Now I sit with egg on my face, and disarray that there is no plan: this is how it is supposed to be. Bush is a liberal who knows how to appeal to the churchy types. John Kerry doesn’t seem so bad now, because gridlock would have slowed things down and congressional Republicans would get their spines back, having to no longer bow to the Commander in Chief. David Brooks summed it up perfectly with his Manchurian Candidate comment. You were right I was wrong. Hopefully McCain in 2008?”