While conservatives on the right are asked to let Harriet Miers’s nomination be pushed through fast and hard for Bush, others are asking the President to pull out. In response, columnist Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News asks his readers for any dirt on Harriet Miers. Apparently he and his own paper have been unable to find any, observing that “We’ve got great confidence expressed by those who know her best and grave doubts expressed by those who know her least,” and wondering aloud if Harry Reid privately opposes Miers and punk’d us all by pretending to support her. Me, I’m sticking with my original theory about Reid, which is that he’s too dumb not to pull a boner were he attempt to turn any Rove-of-the-left trick like that. But maybe playing dumb all those years was another punk on me, a clever ploy to suck off some of the opposition that would have stood firm if a more articulate Democrat had said the same thing? I don’t know.

Former Reason head Virginia Postrel is not amused by Blow’s request. Neither, I suspect, are those who’ve been handed jobs on the rim of the Beltway. Charles’ krauthammer is more agitated over this than by anything else in years, save only our big, strong forces’ penetration into Iraq. So far no one’s been able to jerk Jack off the plantation, but this seems to be more the exception that the rule. Watch for similar dissention from conservatives Los Angeles, CA and Champaign, IL, two jurisidictions where, as in Nevada, prosecution is legal. Or go down to some local pub and eat out with any right-leaning attorney and you’re bound to hear the same arguments there. What to do? Many people on the right have been pretty hard on Miers, who has been widely criticized for sucking up, and much of that opposition has been pretty stiff. If she’s going to be confirmed, all that opposition has to be beaten off somehow, and handing Blow’s job to his readers seems like as sound an approach as any. If it works, it may just be the stroke of luck we conservatives need to pull through these hard times. While some conservatives worry that the acrimony of the Miers nomination to the Supreme Court may do to Bush’s legacy what Monica Lewinsky did to Clinton’s, I say close, but no cigar.