WP's achenblog: Bush Nominates Totally Random Person for Court

[Bumblebee]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/

The president carefully and deliberately selected as his nominee for the vacant Supreme Court position the first person he ran into in the hallway this morning. He has been up front about this technique all along, what he called "the dartboard approach." It could have been anyone -- an usher, a steward, a dog-walker, the guy carrying the nuclear codes. Liberals will rejoice that it wasn't Rove. It turned out to be his former staff secretary, Harriet Miers, currently the White House Counsel. Her qualifications for the position are as follows:

1. She's a lawyer.

2. She's tight with Dubya.

3. She works just a few feet from Bush and thus saved him from the hassle of a protracted search.

4. She has never been a judge and thus has no record that might generate problems in a confirmation hearing.

Presidents run into trouble when they start nominating for the Supreme Court someone who already has a professional record as a judge. The rule in Washington is: Anything you say can and will be used against you. The way to assure that your nominee will be confirmed is to make sure the nominee has no known beliefs, opinions, thoughts, notions, or anything else that might be criticized by Ted Kennedy and his Lefty hand-wringing friends.

To judge from initial reports, Miers is 60, single, no kids, no known friends, no hobbies, no favorite color. There are parking meters in Washington that have a higher public profile than Ms. Miers. Had she not appeared on television today, many people would argue that she doesn't actually exist.

[spooked911]

1. seems to sum it up quite well.

Bush is one long sick joke.

[Bumblebee]

4. This time he will pay for it - big --by being eaten alive by his own base

It has already started and will only get louder.

[Inland]

2. What, Chauncey Gardiner unavailable? nt

[opihimoimoi]

7. Don Knotts and Tim Conway...where are those guys when we need them?

Damn, this is like a fucking flick ....

The PRESIDENT PICKS HIS LAWYER???????

[unblock]

3. something about her selection reminds me of how cheney became veep

he was near bush (running the selection search) and bush just said, hey, why not pick the guy who sits next to me?

seems pretty similar.

[Bumblebee]

5. not just pretty similar but exactly the same. She was, after all,

wetting other candidates for that very job. Except, loathe him or hate him, Cheney was much more qualified for the job...

[JHB]

8. ...on paper, that is.

Reality has since proven otherwise.

[Bumblebee]

9. no argument there

[HEAVYHEART]

6. Add to number 1

that she was Bush's lawyer in Texas.

[ComerPerro]

10. LOL. Number "3" chalks it up to laziness on *'s part. Very likely

LMAO