What will the Democrats do in response to the Miers nomination? I haven’t read the commentary at any of the leftie sites, but she’s the best they can expect from a Republican administration. So, if they’re smart, they’ll follow Jefferson’s advice when England proposed to cede Florida to Spain at the end of the Revolutionary War: Complain just enough so the other parties think you object to the deal, but not so much that they won’t go through with it.