Roosting Chickens

The furor over the Meirs nomination represents a reaction by conservatives to 5 years of Bush deviations from first principals. Here they are in no particular order:

• Throwing in with Ted Kennedy to create an education bill which was not only expensive but it did not achieve meaningful reform and broadened the feds deeper reach into what should be local activity.
• Imposition of steel tariffs which never have worked and had to be rescinded--all to curry favor with the labor unions which will never support Republicans.
• Campaigned against the McCain-Feingold finance bill as unconstitutional and then signed it.
• Has no interest in protecting our borders against illegal immigrants.
• Pushed an expansion of Medicare to provide a drug benefit which will eventually have to be cut and will also cause taxes to rise.
  
• Bush has also allowed the congressional authorization of spending to rise faster than the democrats ever would.
  
• Most conservatives were highly energized by Bush's response to 9/11 and backed him enthusiastically when he advance his doctrine that any country which supported terrorists would be treated as if they were terrorists themselves. Our response to Saudia Arabia, Iran, and Syria suggest that was all so much hot air.

Harriet Meirs is the last straw for the conservatives and when Rush Limbaugh, Bill Kristol, and even your humble blogger turn on him, he is in deep trouble with his base.