So i won't even try. Here's Pat Buchanan summing it up for me.
Bush recoils from greatness
By Pat Buchanan
Oct 3, 2005
Syndicated columnist
Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day -- to name his personal lawyer.
In a decision deeply disheartening to those who invested such hopes in him, Bush may have tossed away his and our last chance to roll back the social revolution imposed upon us by our judicial dictatorship since the days of Earl Warren.
This is not to disparage Harriet Miers. From all accounts, she is a gracious lady who has spent decades in the law, and served ably as Bush's lawyer in Texas and, for a year, as White House counsel.
But her qualifications for the Supreme Court are nonexistent. She is not a brilliant jurist -- indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or the public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.
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2 comments:
I would have become a lawyer if I knew it was so easy to become a Supreme Court judge...Hey all you have to do is endure three years of law school, have one big client, never write an article or voice an opinion, and bam you're wearing the robe. This is beyond disturbing...kind of like Ernest goes to Camp was but on a much smaller level.
i couldn't agree with you any more, ernest goes to camp was very disturbing.
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