Stick a Fork in Her, She's Done
Harriet Miers gets blasted on three fronts today—all deeply damaging. She's getting wounded from so many different directions now, it's painful to watch. (But not as painful as it must be for her to experience.)
First, Ann Coulter writes
a devastating column about Miers, arguing that the only sexism involved in her nomination was that of the people who nominated her.
"Miers is no more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than I am to be a sumo wrestler," Ann writes. "The hearings aren't going to change that; they will just make it more obvious. ...I genuinely feel sorry for Miers. I'm sure she's a lovely woman, brighter than average, and well-qualified for many important jobs. Just not the job Bush has nominated her for. The terrible thing Bush has done to Miers is to force people who care about the court to say that."
Well said.
Next,
David Brooks rips into Miers, dissecting the column Miers wrote as president of the Texas Bar. It is, as Brooks points out, drivel, the kind of thing any professional writer or clear thinker or just reasonably intelligent person would read with disbelief and horror.
Here's one example: "An organization must also implement programs to fulfill strategies established through its goals and mission. Methods for evaluation of these strategies are a necessity. With the framework of mission, goals, strategies, programs, and methods for evaluation in place, a meaningful budgeting process can begin."
Yikes. Methods for evaluation of this nonsense are a necessity.
And finally, The Smoking Gun, God love 'em, has posted
the Miers-Bush correspondence. You have to see it to believe it. "Dear Governor GWB—You are the best governor ever—deserving of great respect!" Etc. And it's not just the words, it's the cards they're written on. Sheesh.
The more one learns about Harriet Miers, the more you have to wonder what the president was thinking (assuming that he was) when he nominated her.
And while this may be kicking a nominee when she's down, I think it's a fair question to ask why she is the White House counsel, which is a not unimportant job in and of itself. After all, the White House counsel is involved with issues like torture, war, the legality of bribing the media, the legality of leaking CIA agents' identities, and so on. These are not minor issues, and nothing in Miers' record suggests that she is competent to rule upon them.
Please, Mr. President, before this gets any uglier...withdraw the nomination, so that we can all get on with the serious business of appointing a credible Supreme Court justice.
