There are tens of millions of Americans who obtain all their news from the liberal media, and they include people who vote Republican as well as those who vote Democrat.

The onslaught of criticism of Bush for nominating Harriet Miers from within the ranks of the Republican party and conservative columnists and bloggers is beginning to make us look bad — all those back seat presidents elected Bush to the job and now want to micromanage him, all in the interests of their own intra-party political interests.

You are all giving the left the best promotion you can for their attempt to enlarge their base on Capitol Hill during the midterm elections. How? By sending a message to the voters that the Republican Party not only hasn’t any confidence in the judgement of the man we reelected to the job of our nation’s leader, but that we’re just as willing to crawl into the same politics-first quagmire occupied by the Democrats that has lost them so many elections these last several years.

And they are already exploiting the situation.

Some Senate Democrats are jumping in the middle of a Republican fray to defend Harriet Miers from conservative criticism that she isn’t qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.

That doesn’t mean Democrats will vote to approve President Bush’s longtime confidante for the high court or give her an easy time at a Senate confirmation hearing.

No, but they’ll make as many political points as they can defending her prior to the hearings, since their input will oppose the rhetoric of the “ultraconservative” anti-Miers crowd.

“All the trashing is coming from the right wing of the Republican Party,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said in a conference call with reporters. “I really think it’s despicable what they’re doing.”

Yeah, let’s make a spectacle of ourselves, ladies and gentlemen, and let the left use it to help win back some seats in 2006, maybe even the White House in 2008. As a team, this makes us look like Charlie Brown’s All Stars.