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Again I find myself not sure what to think or say about a Bush nomination to the Supreme Court. As much as I try and not be a knee-jerk liberal, reacting negatively to everything GWB says or does, until recently he’s been batting pretty much 1.000 in terms of pissing me off. Now due to his weakened political state he seems to be, well, conciliatory? No, that’s too strong a word. Maybe he’s just confused.

This morning he announced his next nominee to the Supreme Court will be Harriet Miers, a woman with no judicial experience (not necessarily a bad thing), no clearly conservative opinions, and whose only qualification seemingly is a close allegiance to Georgie-boy himself. The tremendously aggravating David Frum puts it right over at the right wing National Review Online:

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met. She served Bush well, but she is not the person to lead the court in new directions – or to stand up under the criticism that a conservative justice must expect.

Apparently Harriet doesn’t get out much. Maybe she’s thinking of an other George W. Bush. Add another log to the cronyism fire.

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