I've decided I don't care what Harriet Miers' ideological positions are.

[Plaid Adder]

She is unqualified for the job. That should be the end of it.

If I were Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Sandra Day O'Connor, I would be spitting nails. They both had to work like demons to get where they are, and you can say what you want about O'Connor but both of them were coming up at a time when women lawyers were an endangered species. They made it because they had something.

Harriet Miers has a law degree and some experience practicing law. Great. If that were enough to get you a Supreme Court berth, my partner should have been appointed long ago. And I wish she had been, because I'm sure she's smarter than any woman who can say Bush is brilliant and mean it, and I'm sure she's got more integrity, better ethics, and a greater love of our COnstitutional freedoms than any woman who can look at George W. Bush and smile like she's glad to see him.

Miers's only relevant qualification is having licked Bush's cowboy boots for years. The fact that she once donated to Gore's presidential campaign--at a time when Texas was Democratic--merely indicates that she is a weathervane that follows the prevailing political winds. And sure, isn't that exactly who you want on the Supreme Court? You know, the body that's supposed to compensate for the whims and caprices of the democratic process because it's administered by people who don't have to run for election?

This is cronyism on an order of magnitude that I dreamt not of. Liza and I were thinking he would put up Owen, or Edith "Predator Class" Jones, or some other crazy Texas woman judge. We'd have been greatly upset by either, because they're both hard-right ideologues, plus Owen is a complete shill for big business--but at least they're judges. Fuckin' yeesh, man.

Best commentary I've seen on this was from a friend of mine on another list: "I've figured out how Bush makes his senior appointments. He looks around the room, and goes, 'Hey, how about you?'"

Sigh,

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