Incoming!

Arianna caught some brewing over the weekend:

Here's a newly minted bit of MSM groupthink that needs to be stamped out before it congeals into conventional wisdom: that only people on the left are upset about the way the White House used lies and deception to lead us into a reckless and unnecessary war. A sub-version of this is that the only people upset about Judy Miller and Plamegate are anti-war types who care about the role Miller and the neocons played in helping the Bush White House market the war.

And according to John in DC, the RW Noise Machine is starting to spin the doomed Miers nomination: (emph his)

From the conservative RedState.org's judicial Web site (a pro-Bush's judges site):     RedState is able to report this morning that, very quietly, certain third parties have begun going back through the list of potential judicial nominees at the behest of the White House. Sources tell RedState that while the White House intends to make a public display of moving the Miers nomination forward, the reality of the situation has been conveyed to the President — namely that it is increasingly likely that Harriet Miers will meet a bipartisan effort to block her nomination.

The only charge from the Right  that's sticking to the Dems is that they are obstructionists.   That was how they planned to get the destruction of Social Security pushed through.  That's how they frightened the Dems into that ridiculous agreement to retain the filibuster by promising never to use it. 

The image of the obstructionist Dems is already indefensibily entrenched in the corporate media's established narrative and is, of course, a staple of the RW Noise Machine braying.  With indictments possibly coming and Miers headed for the scrap heap, Team BushCo is going to demand that their friends in the corporate media catapult some serious propaganda.  Short of announcing that they support skipping the hearings and going straight to a unanimous confirmation vote for Miers and suggesting from the Senate floor that any indictments of administration officials would be a distraction during wartime, I don't see the Dems being able to do anything to avoid the shit that's going to be flung their way.