WHY DOES BROWNIE–STILL ON THE FEDERAL PAYROLL–KEEP MAKING HIS WAY INTO NEWS STORIES? Today (somewhat randomly) in the WashTimes:

Conservative activist [ME: He is? I just didn’t realize. Never saw him at the VRWC meetings] Michael D. Brown said internal GOP polling being cited by party and administration emissaries purports to show that “70 percent of self-identified conservative voters have a favorable impression of Harriet Miers.”
The emissaries are warning that ordinary Republicans beyond the Washington Beltway continue to support the nomination because they trust President Bush, even after several weeks of conservative opposition to her, according to several conservative Miers critics who have been courted by the White House.
The administration is “disappointed that conservatives inside the Beltway are fighting among ourselves over this nomination, and it fuels the fires for our enemies, for Democrats,” said Mr. Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director.