Thursday, October 27, 2005

So Long Harriet

Harriet Miers, Presidential Counsel and SCOTUS nominee, withdrew from consideration for the open Supreme Court seat this morning. I'm of two minds about this, much as I was about her nomination.

She is obviously a competent woman and an acceptable lawyer (hell, she was a woman AND Texas Bar head in a time when 'wimmen' Texas DID NOT get major positions). She is obviously a Bush sycophant. Everything else about her is a little vague.

Given a number of her previous statements and positions, I wasn't thrilled with her as a candidate for the Supremes. However, given Bush's record, and the other potential nominees out there, she was probably about as good as we could hope for (what's next? Janice Brown?)

I have the feeling that we on the left will miss her before long.

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