October 22, 2005
End the Quag-Miers
For several weeks I've
tried to withhold judgment of President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers. Even at the
beginning of this debacle I never held the illusion that she was the most qualified of candidates, but the question for me was, would she be qualified
enough.
I have been firmly underwhelmed by the arguments of Will and Krauthammer and other pundits, just as I've annoyed by the tone deaf defenses of Miers by the administration.
I wanted to hear from the nominee herself before I offered my opinion of her suitability for the Supreme Court.
Now I have.
I've had several days to digest her 57 pages of answers to Senate Judiciary Committee, and time to read commentaries from other pundits that I respect, and I have now formed an opinion that I think I can be comfortable with.
I oppose the Miers nomination.
I do not oppose her for her convictions; I oppose her because she appears to have none.
I do not oppose Harriet Miers for having the wrong academic pedigree; I oppose her for not being able to write a cogent, or even a comprehensible, opinion.
I am sure that Harriet Miers is wonderful human being and a good friend, but she does not belong on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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After much consideration and thought on my own part, I quite agree. Miers is not a fit choice.
Miers thinks like a trial attorney: she represents those who are willing or able to pay for her firm's services, regardless of the potentially far-reaching implications of her actions. As such, she has spent all of her career sticking her finger in the air and going the way the money blows.
Bush makes the fatal mistake of believing that because she has been a loyal advocate for him over the years, she will be a good advocate for his political philosophy when he is not paying the bill.
She will not. She will be the next Souter, except far more dangerous. Inside the hidden confines of the Supreme Court, she will be loud, not quiet and unassuming; out of vain stubborness, she will rebel against suggestion from conservative bedrocks like Scalia and Thomas; she will be persuasive and bullying, like Earl Warren; and in her "come what may" philosophy, she may be the worst nightmare appointed by a Republican since Warren.
Time to stick a fork in this one. She's done.
Posted by: Atticus_NC at October 23, 2005 09:38 AM (3lxJi)
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