Inappropriate Content: Harriet Miers

Read yesterday on The Corner that when Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was asked to name her favorite chief justice, she said "Warren" and no one could figure out if she meant Warren Burger or Earl Warren. Warren Burger, says WaPo. I would have liked her to say, "No, no, I meant Warren Beatty."

The New Republic put Miers on the cover last week. She's number one on their list of Top 15 Bush Administration Hacks--in their words, "hackocracy." But Bush is hardly the cause of an America that elevates the least qualified to the gravest responsibilities; he is a symptom. Scott Adams has been complaining about this in the funny pages for the better part of two decades, most effectively in 1997's The Dilbert Principle. (Regular readers of this blog may recall the old word for a society governed by it's least competent citizens is kakistocracy.)

Anyhoodles, rumor has it Capitol Hill's GOP staffers don't like Miers, by and large. If true, that makes confirmation difficult. Picture Senator John Kyl asking, "Can you tell us, Miss Miers, how exactly being commissioner of the Texas lottery prepared you to be a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States?" Well: Democracy Guy has been gleefully cackling over the Ohio GOP's implosion--will I get the chance to do the same here?

On the other hand (left or right?) another Corner piece describes conservatives bitching about Miers as disconnected, discombobulated elites, similar to liberal elites, except not enthusiasts of sodomy, publicly. James Dobson has been on the morning shows, selling Harriet. Katherine Lopez has received hate mail accusing her of not supporting the President, which, it's true, she is not.