David Frum today penned another searing column about Harriet Miers underlining that the conservative storm over this nomination continues to gather steam. And bloggers are moving the story, in his column Frum for instance refers in detail to yesterday’s poll at RWN where the debate continues today.

Michael Stickings is engaging in some overkill by doing what I concluded was not the best use of my time, but he still has two worthwhile round-ups for you to read, here and here.

The one thing that struck me today was that the quality of the debate is increasingly being affected by a proliferation of ridiculous assertions, the latest of which is the following:

Joining her husband in defense of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Laura Bush today called her a "role model for young women around the country" and suggested that sexism was a "possible" reason for the heavy criticism of the nomination.

Well, that was the one argument that we didn’t hear so far. The conservative campaign to elevate Janice Rogers Brown to the Supreme Court should be more than sufficient to put the notion of “sexism” to rest, but somehow the White House is losing its grip on the media process and even failed to keep the first lady on track. Not a pleasant spectacle. Rather embarrassing if you ask me.