Hugh Hewitt on the Senate Republican staffers anonymously quoted as disheartened over the Harriet Miers nomination:

There is no little irony that Senate staffers who failed to persuade their Members’ caucus to break an unconstitutional filibuster when the time is ripe presume to lecture us on a nominee’s judicial philosophy and resume strength.

Low level, exiled officers in the French Army advising the Brits on how to conduct the war in 1941 would have had less hubris.