From today’s Times, on Harriet Miers and her dismal prospects for confirmation:
Alan Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, said that the reaction was like “a triple root canal” but added: “It really isn’t Harriet in my mind. It is the president.” Mr. Simpson blamed a sense of weakness around the White House because of concerns about the C.I.A. leak investigation, the war in Iraq and the handling of the recent hurricanes. “It is like a huge raptor seeing a rabbit running on only three legs,” he said.
How could I not be reminded of this?
