I’m shocked that I beat Marshall to this news:

Harriet Miers, President Bush’s failed Supreme Court nominee, has submitted her resignation as White House counsel, the White House announced Thursday.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said the president reluctantly accepted her resignation, which takes effect Jan. 31. He said a search for a successor is under way.

Maybe Marshall’s still doing the Happy Dance and can’t get to a computer.

Jim: While her short-lived bid for the Supreme Court was a terrible idea, I’m kind of surprised that Harriet Miers stirs such lingering enmity in right of center hearts.

Then again, maybe I ought not to be — although the ire ought to be focused on the President himself, not on Ms. Miers. The rumor that she constitutes one of the “mother hens” who has looked after Bush over his career, the perception that Bush always puts personal connection and loyalty over all other qualities, the sense that Bush tunes out any input that doesn’t come from “his people”… In the end, the fault of the Miers fiasco lies in the Oval Office. We know where the buck stops.