Harridan

Harriet Miers is the stealth candidate. This morning "Fearless Leader" decided to send the name Harriet Miers to the Senate for advice and consent as a nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States. I have a few more fervent wishes than to see her nomination rejected, but not many. I thought about this for quite some time and based on what was known about her, and what I was seeing, was that this was yet another Bush miscue and bungle.

"She isn't what the base is looking for." "She doesn't cut the mustard." Sam Brownback, senator from Kansas, refused to comment. William Kristol is "Disappointed, Depressed and Demoralized."

I don't see that and I don't see another bungle. What I see is the most secrecy obsessed administration in the history of this union putting forth a secrecy shrouded, stealth candidate. Harridan Miers will not be asked by the Judiciary Committee about her views on specific issues, they have stated that is not something they do. They're wrong. Grievously so.

They are wrong because the assumption is, the President would not ask those questions either. This one did not need to. He's spent his entire political life with her by his side and already knows exactly what she thinks. He's telling the rest of his party to trust him, that he's delivered for them. That because this candidate has no paper trail, she will be approved to sit on the highest court in the land.

This is someone that the Idiot In Chief already knows the answers to all of those political questions about, and knows what she will do. This is not John Roberts, the brilliant cypher. People are comparing this nomination to that of Abe Fortas, Byron "Whizzer" White or William O. Douglas, and on some level, that comparison is apt. All of those individuals very strongly represented the views of their nominators. I believe this one does as well. Harriet Miers, if confirmed, would, like a stealth bomber, appear from a mist cloaked sky, never seen or detected until she is dropping bombs and leaving a wake of unparallel destruction behind her. She can be counted on to oppose everything that has moved this country forward for the past 75 years, just as her president has done.

This is a former domestic policy advisor, someone who supported all the nightmares and excesses of the first term. The current White House Counsel, supporting the current disasters. Her nomination to the Supreme Court is the greatest threat to justice, domestic tranquilty, the common defense, general welfare, liberty, and the union, that I have yet seen in my lifetime.