What Went Wrong - Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle.

My only worry now is who the president will appoint after Ms Meirs goes down.

I'm hearing he's a big fan of his butler, who had to appear in traffic court once. So he's probably got a "common sense" approach to libertyfying and governmentalating and all.

As long as the butler goes to church like the president's, he must be OK.

She's not only a bleeding heart liberal, she's an incompetent.

I used to prep our graduate students for job interviews. One of the first questions I told them to think about was this: "Why do you want this job?" Or, perhaps, "Why do you want to teach at Crestboro Community College?"

I can't believe she couldn't answer the question, Why do you want to be a Supreme Court justice? Who the hell prepped this woman? Was it the same guy who prepped Laura to go on a liberal TV show and accuse her husband's conservative base of being nasty sexists?

I've said from the start that Bush should withdraw this nomination and throw somebody to the wolves for screwing up, preferably Andrew Card. Now I'll borrow that graphic from further up this thread:

Things To Do
    Withdraw Miers nomination
    Nominate Janice Rogers Brown
    Fire Andy Card

"Wow, I thought I was reading a liberal post with all the name calling & insult hurling. Way to drive home a point (not)"

Noob, that WAS the point. Those FR denizens who oppose Miers are either pummeled with the same talking points over and over in her favor, or far more likely, personally attacked and accused of backstabbing Bush and the GOP. If you want to convince me to support Miers--and I am on the fence, btw, not simply anti-Miers--give me more than the same reasons over and over. Give me something that speaks to her ever having had a discussion on constitutional issues with ANYONE (see the WSJ's John Fund for a joking challenge on this point)--not even a conservative one, not even one on the record, and I don't even need to know the gist of the conversation from her side!

I am sick, however, of the vitriol poured out by the pro-Miers camp on anyone who dares disagree with the nomination of a person who is OBVIOUSLY not the best nominee for the job, and not even the best conservative woman for the job.

Were it my nomination to make--and it ain't, and won't be--I would be in agreement. I don't approve of the Briers, er, Breyer/O'Connor camp, either.

But what do I know, being an elitist sexist ignorant extortionist Buchananite Libertarian fringe freakazoid?

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