Personally, I couldn't be more pleased, and I'm not being ironical.
One of the most puzzling deformities of liberalism is its reverence for the Supreme Court, and all the shibboleths of professionalism that come with it: in particular, a reverence for "constitutional scholarship" -- a branch of knowledge on the same order as phrenological scholarship -- and of course that pearl of great price, the "brilliant legal mind." Huh? Isn't it precisely one of our big problems in the US that we have too many brilliant legal minds running around?
Nebraska senator Roman Hruska once defended one of Nixon's nominees with the observation that mediocre people need representation too. He was much mocked for it at the time, but I think he was on to something. One reason liberals venerate the Supreme Court so much is that it is, in a sense, the distilled essence of professional credentialling -- the pinnacle of a long slog through the academic and bureaucratic meritocracies, the ultimate in peer review, and of course and by consequence, the utter antithesis of a democratic institution.
So I hope Ms Miers goes in there like Hiram P Shuckleshoe, or W C Fields, and gives those prim old mummies a hissy fit. I know, I know, it's a long shot, but a guy can dream, right?
exactly
make a monkey out of the merit pyramid
by putting that
doe eyed
lank locked
bag faced
ramrod stenogragher
in one of the top chairs
