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This is starting to get ridiculous.   Jeff Kouba writes:   On the flip side, those of us who are seething over this bizarre nomination could read the reply with a very cynical mind. I know it is very unfair to Mark Roberts's thoughtful reply, but some of the post could be read as if talking about President Bush, from the viewpoint of us wounded followers, wondering why we've been betrayed.   The Psalms are full of complaints about enemies, but the bitterest pain of all comes from the betrayal of a friend: "Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me" (Psalm 41:9) ... Why does this matter? Because when we've been hurt by somebody close to us, it makes all the difference in the world to know that God understands and cares. Without a doubt, the deepest pain I've felt in over twenty years of ministry has come from the actions of friends, or people I've considered to be friends. ... Not that the pain disappears. That takes a long time, usually. But God has used my experiences of the betrayal of friends to draw me closer to Him, and for this I am truly grateful. ... Thus, ironically and mercifully, God has used injury from a friend to deepen my faith and strengthen my relationship with Him. ... I haven't even begun to talk about things like forgiveness. It will be a long time before the sting of this missed opportunity fades. With so much at stake, it's difficult to think of forgiveness. But, for us Christians, we may need to let go of our anger, and once again focus on what is eternal.   “Why we’ve been betrayed?”   Just how, I have to wonder, have we been betrayed?  Had President Bush nominated Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court, yeah, we’d have been betrayed.  Had the President sought to put Tom Daschle (who now needs a job) on the Court, we’d have been betrayed.   But the President didn’t nominate either of those gentlemen.  Instead, he nominated a conservative, someone he has known and with whom he has worked closely for over a decade to the Supreme Court.  Harriet Miers may not give us the knock-down, drag-out, grind Chuck Schumer’s face in the mud donnybrook some conservatives wanted, but she does give us the end result we want: another conservative on the Supreme Court.   For us to have been betrayed, we would have to ask what injury was done, what was denied to us that we deserve.  If Miss Miers’ nomination is one which puts a conservative on the Court, which has always been our goal, then the only thing that we appear to have lost is the bloody fight.   Do we really value the battle more than we value the achievement of the goal?  Apparently, some people actually do.   Mr. Kouba’s article referred by Powerline.   Posted by Dana       Sunday, October 9, 2005        Permanent Link __________________________________________