'Back at Work After Battle, Prepping the Next in Line'

article by ELISABETH BUMILLER here.

As the handful of people in Ms. Miers's West Wing office that Sunday night tell it, the president's beleaguered counsel brought a sardonic sense of humor to the proceedings. When Ed Gillespie, an adviser at the meeting, told Judge Alito that if he was going to wear his glasses for the announcement then he should also wear them to his confirmation hearings, Ms. Miers offered some advice of her own.

"But don't wear eyeliner," she told Judge Alito, according to participants, who say the meeting immediately broke into laughter.