Another e-mail (responding to last night’s stop-whining e-mail post:

That E-mailer is dead right. You Cornerites were throwing a tantrum and I quit reading you all for a day. WFB was never given to instantaneously spontaneous reactions bereft of thought and consideration. Ultimately, the next available election is 13 months away – we’ll see what the ELECTORATE says. Yesterday, the Corner was too MSM for me. The angry reaction, in tune and on key. from Laura Ingraham, Rush, and the other Righties seems very talking-pointish.

ME: It is worth pointing out: One of the differences between 50 years ago when NR was founded and 2005 is now we have this blogosphere thing, too–and talk radio and all-day TV punditry–where insta-reaction is what you do. (If you would have preferred we wait a few days before commenting on the Miers pick, perhaps reading in the blog world is just not your thing.) I’m not sure what you saw yesterday here was “bereft of thought and consideration.” I think it was largely reasoned reaction from folks with conservative instincts, who, though generally friendly to the administration, are skeptical, with good reason. And maybe we–Corner and Laura and Rush types–sounded similar because we have similar instincts on these things…since, well, we do…and hope the president would share them.

We want to believe–which you can print out for your office wall here.