I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the Bush administration squirming to have to frantically bolster Harriet Miers anti-abortion credentials, which in turn causes Democratic centrists like Feinstein to have to distance themselves from the possibility of supporting Miers.
I don’t know what it all means ultimately about Miers chances at confirmation (could Bush really lose the far right on a confirmation vote?) and I’m not sure it’ll result in anything good, but for now, it’s quite riveting theater and no matter how you hoist it, his petard has been hooked–what is a “petard”, anyway?
Petard: A small bombshell; Injured by his own devices against others.
But I’m assuming it was a rhetorical question, and resisting the urge to make a very UN PC statement about Bush that rhymes w/ Petard.
“Petard” from the French, “to break wind” again, wholly appropriate to the context.