I simply can't believe how naive dkos and Kos himself have sounded on the appointment of Miers over the past 24 hours. Here's what we know about her:
- She has no life outside her job, other than being ACTIVE in a conservative evangelical church in Texas, oh, and choppin' hickory with W. when she's on vacation with him in Crawford.
- She LOVES, I mean LOVES W. who she has been quoted as describing as the "smartest man she's ever known."
- She's a corporate lackey who's big law firm got nailed for a 22 million dollar settlement for aiding a corporate ponzi scheme, al a Kenny Boy.
- She's been one of Bush's most lockstep loyal pit bulls since the day they met.
- Her contributions to Dems were back in the Pleistocene Era of Texas politics, and she only contributed to Gore to hedge her bets.
- She knows EXACTLY what Bush was looking for and it was HER- The PERFECT stealth candidate- One who's views and loyalty are as unassailable as Karen Hughes, and who's paper trail is non-existant and/or protected by the atty/client privilage.
THE BOTTOM LINE: A rock-solid vote with Scalia and
Thomas for the next 20 years, PLUS, the possibility that she'll add her own diabolical spin to things since she actually appears to be pretty bright.
All this joy about how she might be the next Souter is gibberish. Souter was from freakin' New England, had NO personal connection to his appointers whatsoever, and was nominated by Bush's father, who right about now is lookin' like freakin' FDR compared to this guy.
Jeeeezzze, I can't believe you guys. You take the Limbaugh/Fox reactions against Mier as though they knew she was going to uphold the right of 6 year olds to get abortions at the corner 7-11. They don't know squat, just like us, except they are usually knee-jerk dumber than most of us. This time I'm not so sure.
You know who does know about Miers? Bush, Rove, Cheney, her pro-life pastor, and the hickory trees.
I'll give ten bucks to anyone who can come up with a scintilla of evidence that she won't vote to overrule Roe the first chance she gets.
Wake up and smell the napalm, folks. They've outsmarted us again.