Miers

Harriet Miers. The best way to say what I think on this is to characterize her as an "interesting" pick. GWB seems to think she's cool. There's a few staunch conservatives out there who think he's cool, and so by association she's cool too. I don't know. On the one hand, maybe she'll be good. Maybe she'll interpret the constitution with amazing legal insight and the fortitude to apply laws instead of making ones she'd like to see. Maybe. On the other hand, why can't we have a conservative nominee with the mental ability of a heavy weight champion? Do they not exist? (For all you orthodox liberals out there, that's rhetorical. Yes they do.) So I'm a little disappointed.

Then I had this thought. My wife is currently in law school. A fairly prestigious one. She's graduating this year, has a clerkship with a federal district court judge lined up and a potential job after that clerkship available with a fairly well known law firm. Given a few years to establish herself, my wife will be MORE QUALIFIED FOR SCOTUS THAN HARRIET MIERS. A more prestigious (and one would expect rigorous) education. Much more judicial experience (my wife also interned for another federal district court judge). And, with time to establish herself, a competitive experience as a lawyer (okay, so Miers was a managing partner at her firm, maybe she wins this one). In any event, two out of three isn't bad. Now, my wife is a great woman, extremely competent, but she has not (yet!) established herself as a leader in constitutional law. But she hasn't even graduated law school. Why couldn't dubya find a scholar of greater renown? Is Miers really the best one out there?