"After a blistering week, the White House is scrambling to control a conservative uprising over the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, with President Bush pitching his choice directly to the public on Saturday as his Republican allies plotted strategy to shore up support," the New York Times reports.
"The conservative uproar over Ms. Miers underscores how difficult it has been for Mr. Bush to pull his own party together as he faces a variety of problems on other fronts."
The Washington Post says Bush advisers "who once anticipated an all-out war with Democrats over his attempts to reshape the Supreme Court have had to recalibrate their strategy to battle an insurrection among Republicans who contend the president is obligated to nominate a top-flight legal figure with an unmistakably conservative pedigree."
"At every point where the White House has hoped it might have turned the corner, it has run into more flak from the right."
Meanwhile, the AP notes some Senate Democrats "are jumping in the middle of a Republican fray to defend" Miers. Of course, "that doesn't mean Democrats will vote to approve President Bush's longtime confidante for the high court or give her an easy time at a Senate confirmation hearing."
