George Will to George W. Bush........

.....take your Harriet Miers and shove it.

George Will to the Senate......Just say NO.

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.

Now George Will is giving the Democrats the opening they need to attack Miers on the issues of qualifications and cronyism. I'm still amazed at this nomination; is it hubris or just stupidity? I'm not surprised that Dubya would do this on his own but why did his handlers let him?