George W. Bush's Theater of the Absurd
Here's an inadvertently hilarious paragraph from
a story in the Boston Globe about the Miers' nomination:
"WASHINGTON -- Some of the advocacy groups that are concerned about Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers's lack of a record on social issues are favoring a new approach to thwarting her nomination: Asking the nominee, who has no judicial experience, complex questions about constitutional law...."
Imagine! Asking a nominee to the Supreme Court tough questions about constitutional law. The nerve.
I can't resist quoting the next paragraph:
"'We are trying to establish that there are thousands of questions that law students routinely deal with . . . and if she can't get to that level, it doesn't matter if you're for the left or the right, at that point it's a fait accompli that she is not fit for the office," said Eugene DelGaudio, president of Public Advocate, a conservative profamily group.
Note that DelGaudio is from a
conservative group....
For whatever reason, opposition to this nomination is reaching a critical mass. It's time for Miers to withdraw. She seems a perfectly decent, albeit grossly sycophantic, woman. She should get out while she still has something of a reputation intact.
There is one other possibility: that Miers' opponents have set the bar so low (surely the White House counsel can handle questions routinely debated by law students...right?) that she will benefit from excessively lowered expectations. I mean, she's not a total idiot....
