What’s Happening In The White House?
I was on the road today. While heading west I heard on the radio that White House Counsel Harriet Miers had withdrawn her nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court. I was shocked! Not because I thought that Ms. Miers was going to be the next (fill in your pick for greatest Supreme Court Justice here), but because George W. Bush doesn’t retreat.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, George W. Bush has consistently held his ground. What was even more shocking was the fact that Ms. Miers withdrawl was almost exactly what Charles Krauthammer had predicted in a recent column. It was almost as if Mr. Krauthammer had written the game plan for the White House and then got it mixed up with some columns that he was sending off to his newspaper syndicate.
When I got to my destination morning, I was meeting with a Judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (no, I’m not appealing some past conviction). He was as shocked as I was, and for the same reasons. It was interesting to find out that someone who sits on the Court just below the Supreme Court did not think Ms. Miers had “the Right Stuff”, and this judge was a good conservative Republican appointee.
While I’m shocked, I think we should all count our blessings. It doesn’t matter whether you like Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Thomas or Scalia, if you can be objective you have to agree that they are all exceptionally well qualified. You don’t have to agree with someone to respect them. I don’t think I could have respected a Ms. Justice Miers anymore than I would have respected a Mr. Chief Justice Fortas. Cronies have their place but not on the nation’s highest court.
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so cool