Harriet Miers

Am I the first person to notice that in this administration there is a pattern of people leading search committees eventually finding themselves? I know that two people do not a pattern make but it is rather curious that this is what ends up happening.

I would not have voted for John Roberts for Chief Justice because of his age. He has tremendous qualifications and while he served only a short time on the bench, he is a well-known scholar of the constitution. His appearances before the court, not to mention his success rate, show a great depth of knowledge and skill. I would have voted him an associate Justice; I would not have made him Chief. He is not Chief Justice and no one asked me anyway.

Today, we are presented with Harriet Miers as the nominee to replace Justice O’Connor on the bench. We are well assured by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) that she is a smart woman. However, I am sure that any woman with a J.D. from 1970 has to be pretty quick because that was not exactly the time when women were welcome in Law Schools or had been for a very long time. Let us not forget that the Belle of the Senate, Elizabeth Dole, was the first woman to graduate an Ivy League Law School – or at least one of the first to do so.

Without time on the bench, I have a hard time believing that she is qualified to be on the Supreme Court. I am sure she has all the skills and the temperament. I am sure she is conservative enough and smart enough but I do not think that someone who had never been a judge could be a very good one on the Supreme Court without first having been a judge somewhere else.

There is a bit of cronyism here to explore as well. It is a known fact that she is the President’s lawyer (and this will kill her) but there is something else that the good people at Jason Vertucio pointed out: she went to college with First Lady Laura Bush

Going to college with the First Lady is not a big deal, in and of itself, or that she smoked a lot of pot with First Lady Laura Bush, but the investigative team at Jason Vertucio found even more out: the woman is unmarried and has no children, which is not uncommon for a professional woman of her age but it goes deeper when it was discovered that she wears sandals. The worst kind of sandals: Birkenstocks.

Yes, this woman wears the Birkenstocks and that can mean only one thing. She is a militant, filthy, Nazi! She wears little German war machines on her feet and goosesteps around Washington, D.C. doing Lynne Cheney’s bidding and is set now to goosestep right up the steps of the Senate and then across the street into a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

We can rest assured: no one appointed this woman to her office because of her looks but because she puts out. She puts out in the worst possible way: the evil Nazi way. Left unchecked this woman will single handedly shut every abortion clinic after sterilizing all the poor people and telling girls then cannot go to school and must work in jobs soon to be outsourced to countries we cannot identify on maps because of No Child Left Behind, which has consequently impaired my ability to write a concise sentence before bearing the half-robot child of John Ashcroft to grow up and become the evilest Republican lawyer ever but not before reinstating the draft and sending all the brothers of said girls to go invade said country of the outsourced jobs – ostensibly to get said jobs back and fight ‘terrorism’ but really to keep them occupied so she does not have to share the XBOX 360 that you cannot afford on an Associate Justice’s salary – so stop asking for one from Clarence Thomas.

Comments

[Alex Vance]

I'm disappointed. She's an underqualified crony and she's too old. And I had fifty dollars saying he was going to pick Ann Coulter.

[Christopher]

I was hoping it would be you, Mr. Vance, how snotty would I be with my attorney on the Supreme Court. "Sure, he had a hard time passing the bar but he takes funny pictures and can photoshop like a pro."

[Alex Vance]

I had no difficulty passing the bar. It was the urine test that got me.

[Jay V]

I would have preferred to see Anne Heche.

[Fi]

I just love american politics.

[Terri]

Teeheee. I giggle at your wit. But seriously, I wonder if Harriet will get Sandra's approval?

[Margaret]

I am worried about her lack of judicial experience, but more importantly, who cuts her bangs? I could do a better job than that!

[l-empress]

Neither Roberts nor Miers would be my first choice, but, as you say, no one asked me. The two important qualifications to sit on the Court are (1) enough intelligence to understand and interpret the Constitution and (2) the integrity to do follow the law, not the money. It's the integrity that worries me these days.

[liz]

ANN COULTER! That would have been an inspired choice! GOD that would be great. The Supremes could sell tickets to that show.

[golfwidow]

I don't know what's more disturbing to me: that Harriet Miers thinks George W. Bush is one of the most brilliant men she's ever met, or that she admitted to that fact in public.

[awittykitty]

All I kept thinking as I was watching her stand next to Bushnuts was him saying, "Good job Brownie" a couple of weeks ago to the (cough) former head of FEMA. Why can't I get a job by just knowing somebody, dammit!!