Aren’t you asking what doomed Harriet Miers’s nomination? Isn’t everybody? So here are the answers: It was the Bullshitter’s own rightwingnuts. It was their “tar-and-feather tactics.” It was her failed questionnaire. It was, get this, the White Houses’s own nefarious conspiracy. You know what? We think it was the eyeliner.
— Tireless Staff of Thousands