This is my obligatory Harriet Miers post. I’m having trouble generating enough interest to write about the Supreme Court nominations. I honestly couldn’t care less that George Bush picked yet another crony for an important job, a lifetime appointment that could overhaul the foundation of our social policy for the better. Or the worst.
As significant as that is, I just don’t care. It doesn’t bother me at all that Bush has a pattern of hiring friends and friends of friends for important jobs. After all, Slick Willie did the same thing, and it didn’t kill us. Did it?
So, I’ll let those of you who care tell me all about her. I’ll fill up this post with your links and comments. I hear she’s an evangelical Christian. True? I hear she’s a friend of Bush with no judge experience. False? I may have been nodding off at the time, but I thought I heard she gave money to Al Gore’s campaign. Tell me it ain’t so. It’s your stage.
What other bloggers are saying:
Conservative Dialysis: “Harriet Miers may well turn out to be the next Scalia or Thomas, and then again she might turn about to be another Souter. We won’t know until she’s been on the bench for awhile and written a decision or two. That’s the problem.”
Harriet Miers has her own blog! Wait a second…it’s just a spoof. 
Biblical Christianity: “Once again messing with the heads of the nation, President Bush bypassed every hope (Owen, Brown, Luttig) and fear (Gonzalez) of his constituency, and named unknown lawyer/friend Harriet Miers. This unknown woman is about to become well-known.”
Evangelical Outpost: “The most shocking thing about Bush’s nomination is that so many people are shocked by Bush’s nomination. What exactly did they expect?…Bush is no conservative; he is a cronyist.” (Update)
Dean Peters: “Personally, I think we need to guard ourselves against statements like ‘she’s unqualified because she’s never served on the bench …’ Neither did the Honorable Judge Rehnquist nor I believe some 40 other of his peers (I’d appreciate a comment regarding that number one way or the other). Moreover, what’s wrong with a little ‘career’ diversity on the bench? Remember, no one likes a stupid Christian.”
Paul Deignan: “Harriet Miers is many things, but she is not a Constitutional scholar, well-seasoned in elective office, or someone who has made many public speeches or presentations on the workings of government.”
Michelle Malkin:”We have a Republican House. A Republican Senate. And a Republican White House. Why is it, after working so hard to put a president in power who promised to appoint conservative judges, that we have to settle for crossing our fingers and accepting a blank-slate Supreme Court nominee with an ideological paper bag over her head?”
Captain Ed gives his grudging support. I can’t even muster that. Maybe I need a vacation. And $50 million in a bank account. And a beautiful mansion on the ocean.
Beldar: Says Miers is “well-qualifed” for the job.
Patrick Ruffini: “At the risk of drawing the undying enmity of The Herd, I’m going to state categorically that conservatism is sitting pretty at this hour.”
This is unrelated to the post, but The Political Teen has found great way to increase traffic and links. Smart kid.
The Therapist: “What I want to know is, does Harriet Miers dress like a republican because she’s been paid to do so?”
John Hawkins: “We also can’t forget the anti-First Amendment, McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill which Bush signed into law or Bush’s position on illegal immigration which has alienated a large chunk of the party.”
Right Wing Nut (House): “In short, if the President wanted to pi** off the most number of people in the shortest period of time, he should be congratulated.”
Lawrence Auster: “Miers advocated support of women in combat, homosexual adoptions, and the International Criminal Court. For conservatives, it should not be a choice between supporting this insulting nomination and remaining silent. They should actively seek to defeat it. Then Bush would have to go back and choose a decent nominee.”
Even the head-liberal-in-charge (profanity warning) says: “So Bush tosses the social conservatives overboard. He doesn’t need them anymore. He doesn’t need to be reelected.”
California Conservative: “The Democratic Party is openly celebrating the conservative infighting, and promptly using it to their advantage.”
News links:
- Bush: Miers ‘a pit bull in size 6 shoes’
- The Real Harriet Miers
- Parties Conflicted Over Miers Nomination – You don’t say?
- Cronyism
- Miers’ Qualifications Are ‘Non-Existent’
By the way, I oppose the Miers nomination.
