{"id":4863,"date":"2005-10-27T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:16:29","slug":"poor_harriet_mi_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Poor Harriet Miers, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th I posted &quot;Poor Harriet Miers&quot; &#8211; the link is here &#8211;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/poor_harriet_mi.html\">http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/poor_harriet_mi.html<\/a> and I said &quot;It seems a certain type of ideological conservative would rather get in a titanic political battle over ideas and agendas &#8211; even if it means losing &#8211; then simply picking up another chip on the table.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>And this seems to be the case. The Ann Coulter-type conservatives are chortling over scuttling Miers. But what will happen with a nominee suitable to Coulter? Remember, she opposed Roberts.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>There will be a huge donnybrook &#8211; virtual blood in the streets with people like Ted Kennedy screaming about the &quot;extreme right wing&quot;. And that&#8217;s not good. People like Coulter would rather fight some ideological pie-in-the-sky battle, even if it means losing (it&#8217;s probably good for her book sales). <\/p>\n<p>Coulter, et al, would rather lose an ideological battle then win incrementally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th I posted &quot;Poor Harriet Miers&quot; &#8211; the link is here &#8211;&nbsp; http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/poor_harriet_mi.html and I said &quot;It seems a certain type of ideological conservative would rather get in a titanic political battle over ideas and agendas &#8211; even if it means losing &#8211; then simply picking up another chip on the table.&quot; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}