While we are waiting...some more on Miers

Over at Running Scared this morning Jazz sends us over to a column by James J. Kilpatrick.

She filled out the committee's 57-page questionnaire, and when she was done, her answers were in a class with Gertrude Stein's summation of Oakland, Calif.: "There is no there there."

Perhaps she might have survived direct testimony next month, but considering the lifetime office at stake, she would have been feeding the hungry senators a cup of no-cal gruel. Asked to describe the 10 "most significant litigated matters which you personally handled," she dredged up 10 cases. On this observer's scale of 10, the legal significance of her cases ranged from roughly 1.2 to possibly 1.3. She listed 17 examples of her "community leadership," but could not give the dates for half of them.

What we have seen from Harriet Miers is that she has too little judicial knowledge to have a judicial philosophy. What we have seen would indicate that she is largely a sycophant with no ideological philosophy, going which ever way the wind is blowing at the moment. When describing Miers the word mediocre is too kind. It is little wonder that people on all sides of the political spectrum were nervous. The lesson of the Miers nomination for both the right and the left is that the C- president cannot be trusted to make important appointments.