'Inadequate, Insufficient And Insulting'

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(CBS4) DENVER President George W. Bush is getting the political headache he deserves for nominating White House counsel Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court. She is such an uninspiring candidate, and she has so far been so underwhelming in convincing people otherwise, that by contrast she makes her predecessor-nominee, John G. Roberts, Jr., seem like Thomas Jefferson.

First, the White House asked us to believe that Miers, the president’s former private attorney, was the second coming of Sandra Day O’Connor, a woman of substance whose real-world experiences would make her a valuable and uncommon asset on the Court. That didn’t work. Compared with O’Connor, who was an elected legislator and appellate-court judge before being asked to join the Supremes by President Ronald Reagan, Miers comes off as a second-rate hack whose idea of professional boldness was taking a job at the Texas Lottery Commission.

Then the President and his wife, Laura Bush, asked us to believe that Miers is the next Joan of Arc, literally and figuratively. To appease his roiling conservative base last week, the President went out of his way to highlight his nominee’s religious devotion, even though such beliefs should be completely removed from her work on the Court. Meanwhile, the first lady, Laura Bush, accused Miers’ detractors of sexism even though many of those same critics—including me-- are asking why the President simply didn’t name to the Court one of the dozen or so supremely qualified female federal appeals court judges. So clearly that didn’t work as an argument, political or otherwise.

Next we learned that Miers has a long and rich history of brown-nosing her current boss with silly platitudes even before he became the President, a bad habit she tragically has maintained during her time of loyal service at the White House. The examples are numerous and already legendary—even if you haven’t had the pleasure of reading Maureen Dowd recently. The Los Angeles Times reported some of these earlier this week, portraying Miers as such a presidential suck-up that she might as well be part of a Saturday Night Live skit parodying herself.

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1. Inadequate, Insufficient And Insulting - if she doesn't get the

SCOTUS job, she seems to have all the qualifications for Snotty Scotties job.

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2. The comparison to John Roberts is infuriating.

Roberts is evil. Roberts worked to steal our votes in 2000 and then he voted as a Judge to deify Bush as omnipotent, with powers to detain any American indefinitely -- and even be tortured -- with no legal protections. There's your comparison.

Betty Crocker would be a better nominee than John Roberts.