So, you know what Sen. Dem. leader Harry Reid thinks about SCOTUS-nominee Miers now I suspect you were wondering what the right-wing thinks of the latest Bush fiasco:
From David From's Diary on National Review Online (Sept. 29, 2005)
I believe I was the first to float the name of Harriet Miers, White House counsel, as a possible Supreme Court [nominee]. Today her name is all over the news I have to confess that at the time, I was mostly joking. Harriet Miers is a capable lawyer, a hard worker, and a kind and generous person. She would be an reasonable choice for a generalist attorney, which is indeed how George W. Bush first met her. She would make an excellent trial judge: She is a careful and fair-minded listener. But US Supreme Court?
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.
Does any of this make you wonder about her judgement as well as lack of experience?
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