I started writing transcripts of a Miers confirmation hearing yesterday, like I did for John Roberts. A few lines in, I stopped: it wasn't funny. It was mean.

I could make fun of John Roberts because he was a sure thing. With Miers, it's different. (For me. Other people are hilarious.) Her confirmation is uncertain. The White House, caught between a special prosecutor and bad polling, may have fumbled the pick. So, to me, Miers is less of a target for cheap jokes.

Look: it's good Miers is in trouble. Read her bio: she's a Bush crony, underqualified, was a lottery commissioner. Since being nominated, she has said nothing, done nothing, at all encouraging. John Roberts was experienced and qualified. (Not extraordinary, but prodigious reason is not, these days, a marketable skill.) Miers is charming in person, I'm sure, but as a nominee, she is depressing.

Other places (TNR, NRO, etc) say similar things, more insightfully, persuasively. My point was that I'm having trouble being funny, which is far more ominous than three decades of ill-reasoned rulings written by clerks, a group perennially underpaid, overworked, and inebriated. (Undressed as well, if I have anything to say about it.)

I need some time for reflection, reading, other hippy nonsense. I must be less in touch with my inner child, whiny and angsty creature, and closer to my inner plagiarist. Accomplish that, and keep reading back issues of The Onion, I'll be chuckle-worthy again in no time.

I wouldn't count on Miers being charming in person. My guess is that she is dull and boring. - UT People Watcher

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:29 PM

 

Miers is also a classic MBA type appointment. Business is even more political than politics, yet some fool is always running for office saying that government should be run like a business. - Sick of MBAs in UT

Posted by  Anonymous @ 7:20 AM

 

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