It's time to subpoena the religious right leaders and demand they tell the nation what they know about Harriet Miers

UPDATE: Pat Buchanan mentions possibility of Judiciary Committee subpoenaing James Dobson!

From their own quotes it sounds like religious right and other conservative leaders are getting confidential White House briefings and inside information about how Miers will decide key issues on the Supreme Court. Great. Let's subpoena them and have them testify before the Senate, under oath, about what they know.

The Alliance for Justice has compiled a list of key quotes suggesting these people have insider knowledge of what Miers really believes - it's time to subpoena them all. Either they know something the Senate doesn't - something the Senate needs to know. Or they're publicly lying to the rest of the conservative movement about how they should "trust" that Miers holds quite conservative judicial views.

So which one is it? Are Bush's surrogates in the religious right lying about the fact that they "know" Miers' is really one of them, or do they have some secret insider info that they should be forced to share with the Senate?

Here's my subpoena list:

- James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family

- Nathan Hecht, longtime "friend" of Harriet Miers (they keep trying to spin him like he's some boyfriend or something, it's very weird).

- Vice President Dick Cheney

- Senator Orrin Hatch

- President Bush

- RNC Chair Ken Mehlman

- Jay Sekulow, one of Pat Robertson's people

Finally, what is this "trust me" bs coming from Bush? If he knows Harriet Miers' views then he ought to tell the nation what they are, rather than playing some weird cryptic game. The Supreme Court is too important a position to be playing games with.

PS My "spell check" on Blogger tried to change "Sekulow" to "sexually." Nice.