"Grounding" The Court

Texas Senator John Cornyn has on op-ed in OpinionJournal.com this morning in support of Miers. He brings up several aspects of her resume that have been thus far overlooked.

And he makes an interesting point that reinforces what folks like "the Great One" Mark Levin have been saying recently about the courts in general and SCOTUS in particular (see Levin's excellent book "Men In Black"):

It is true that she was not educated at East Coast universities and has not spent her entire career inside the Beltway. This, again, is a plus in my book, not a minus. Anyone who has followed the Supreme Court in recent years knows that what the institution needs most is a dose of life beyond Washington. Last year, the court permitted a public display of the Ten Commandments in Texas, but not in Kentucky. It took nine justices on the court 10 different opinions to explain why this was so. The court is dangerously out of touch with America. Ms. Miers will help bring it back down to earth.

I think as we learn more about Harriet Miers, such fierce opponents as Levin may get a better comfort level with her. Of course, I'm not holding my breath.

UPDATE: 10:20am
Tony Blankely is reluctantly signing on.

As in life, so in politics, if one seeks disappointment one will surely find it. And conservatives have not had to look hard this week to find the gloom. But it is the disappointment of an unrequited ardor, of a not yet fully consummated passion. Such youthful vigor inevitably finds its satisfaction.

Consider, in the alternative, the deeper disappointment that liberals contemplate in this dreary autumn of their aspirations.

The last remaining champions of their principles sit aged and infirm on the high bench -- their former brilliance now brittle and susceptible to being chiseled and crumbled by even the most modest conservative laborers.

Victory may not be heroic, but it will be ours.

Again, let's go "big picture" here.

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