George Will vs George Bush

In the most scorching philippic ever directed against a Republican president, George Will blasts the president's nomination of Harriet Miers:

In addition, the president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution. The forfeiture occurred March 27, 2002, when, in a private act betokening an uneasy conscience, he signed the McCain-Feingold law expanding government regulation of the timing, quantity and content of political speech. The day before the 2000 Iowa caucuses he was asked in advance — to insure a considered response from him — whether McCain-Feingold’s core purposes are unconstitutional. He unhesitatingly said, ‘‘I agree.’’ Asked if he thought presidents have a duty, pursuant to their oath to defend the Constitution, to make an independent judgment about the constitutionality of bills and to veto those he thinks unconstitutional, he briskly said, ‘‘I do.’’

In essence, he's just called Bush impulsive and stupid.

My favorite line: "Under the rubric of ‘‘diversity’’ — nowadays, the first refuge of intellectually disreputable impulses..."