Herr President Nominates Crony For Yet Another Post

As if Michael Brown's lack of training to run FEMA hadn't by far been proven a mistake on the White House's part, Herr President went ahead and put up another completely unprepared person for a major post. This time the job is the highest court in the land, and the nominee, HARRIET MIERS, has never served as a judge. Has she maybe judged an Arabian Horse show? We don't know. But she has been in the White House since 2001, which means she must either a) hold all of Bush's views or b) not speak up about it too much. Neither is much of a choice for the Supreme Court.

In a strange development, the loudest complaints to Miers' nomination have been from people like Pat Buchanon and Rush Limbaugh. They are worried that she might not be conservative enough. The big problem with nominating someone with no judicial record is that there is no paper trail and thus no way to really figure out a) where she stands and b) if she knows how to be a judge. This is all part of Herr President's plan. He actually said to reporters yesterday he thought IT WAS IMPORTANT that there not be a paper trail so no one would know how she stands. Instead, we are supposed to trust him. "I've known Harriet for more than a decade. I know her heart," he said of his fellow Texan. "I'm confident that Harriet Miers will add to the wisdom and character of the judiciary." So what are the conservative pundits fussing for? Honestly, I think it's a big head fake. If these people are worried, then the democrats might be more inclined to not fight the nomination...

Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that Miers has made donations to pro-life organizations and is a member of an evangelical church. But the issues can be deceiving, especially when you have almost nothing to go on (I can also point out that she told a gay rights group, via survey, that she believed gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as straight Americans, but that she opposed repeal of the state's sodomy law criminalizing same-sex sexual conduct). These are also things that happened in the late eighties, when I might add, Miers was a Democrat (she even gave money to the Al Gore Campaign in 1988).

That's why I find myself siding with Rush Limbaugh this morning (I haven't said that since I was in high school) - it would be better if she had some judicial record so we knew what we were getting. But in my heart, I feel that anyone Herr President is THAT confident about, can't be someone I want. But wouldn't be better if it was someone with some experience? Who had tested their opinions and shown they could JUDGE what was right? Who hadn't been in the WHite House for the last 4 years and therefore not another CRONY? I'm tired of cronyism. It's bad for America. I was against it when Clinton did, I am against it When the current administration does it, and I probably would have been against if I had been alive back when Kennedy did it. It's not the way to get the best people to do the important jobs. How can it be?

Herr President, you've failed again. How long must we live under the tyranny of your poor choices?