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So, Harriet Miers wrote George W. Bush that he was "the best governor ever - deserving of great respect!" and told him how "cool" he was. Did she dot her 'i's' with little hearts? Is it all in some 14-year-old girl color from her favorite signing felt-tip pen? Did she promise that she and W would be "best friends forever!!!!" and remind him of all the good times on student council and the yearbook committee?

We're so far through the looking glass that Wonderland is starting to look normal to me.

I offer the following prediction (reluctantly): when Miers has her hearings, we're going to be flooded with articles about how surprisingly smart, witty, well-informed, and charming she is. The Republicans will immediately cuddle up to her, and (most) of the squawking conservatives outside government will realize that a stray lapdog is almost as good as a known idealogue, and they'll shut up too. And there will be our hapless Democrats, caught with their pants down (again, and not in the harmless Clinton way, either), with nothing to say because they thought the conservatives would do their work for them - and because they're spineless weasels, of course.