Poor poor Harriet Miers

I should go to bed, but I have to comment on the news of the day.




You know, I do feel for Harriet Miers; the poor woman was just doing her job as White House counsel (and her other job of being a lap-dog to George W. Bush) and then the president nominates her for the Supreme Court. Who the hell turns that down? Welp, she should have. I mean, I took a political science class once, and I probably know as much, if not more, about the Constitution than she does. I gotta say, I may not want an ultra-conservative Court Justice, but if I’m going to get one, I want them to be a well qualified ultra-conservative Court Justice. She should not have been nominated, plain and simple, and George W. Bush’s belief that his personal endorsement would be enough to outweigh Miers’ lack of experience did her a disservice. Now, Miers is this national joke and another sad example of cronyism gone bad (the latest after that Arabian horse Commissioner). Poor Harriett, I can only hope that soon, a bigger news story will come along, otherwise her name may become synonymous with “an unqualified lackey appointed in a position that your experience does not warrant.”

And you know what; a bigger news story may come along. Tomorrow, we should finally hear who will be indicted in the CIA leak case. Will it be I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, and/or anyone else? I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty anxious. If you know me, you know I’m not the biggest fan of the current administration, and one of the things that irks me the most about the administration is this pompous, “we can do no wrong, we are always right, believe what we say because we said it, if you attack us or our position, you’re thickheaded, unpatriotic, and don’t like bunnies” mentality. It’s looking like maybe, just maybe, with everything that’s been happening the past few months (e.g. Hurricane Katrina, FEMA, 2,000 dead in Iraq, high gas prices, Miers nomination debacle, and possible CIA leak indictments for White House staff) that pompous mentality may get some long-overdue comeuppance. A liberal can only hope.

Btw, how does a man with a nickname of “Scooter” actually end up having any sort of professional career? I mean, you’ve gotta be kidding me…“Scooter?”