She rose to her present position by her absolute devotion to George Bush. I mentioned last week that she told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met. To flatter on such a scale a person must either be an unscrupulous dissembler, which Miers most certainly is not, or a natural follower. And natural followers do not belong on the Supreme Court of the United States.

So saideth former Bush speech writer, coiner of the phrase “axis of evil”, and author of “The Right Man”, David Frum. He deleted it from his blog within half an hour– which is an act that every blogger is familiar with.

“Most Brilliant man she had ever met”???

Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Miers’s nomination resulted from the president’s careful consultation with people capable of such judgments. If 100 such people had been asked to list 100 individuals who have given evidence of the reflectiveness and excellence requisite in a justice, Miers’s name probably would not have appeared in any of the 10,000 places on those lists.

And thus moves forth George Will. I take the moment to note here that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid suggested the name Harriet Miers. His supposed reasoning is here… which somehow ignores her statement about Bush being the most brilliant man she had ever met.

The president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution. George Will then moves forward with malarky spelling out his opposition to McCain — Feingold. It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court’s role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president’s choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.

I add that some of George Will’s same considerations oughta apply to selecting a president of the United States. And again I say: “Most Brilliant man she had ever met”???

Where did this Supreme Court nominee come from? Is this Bush looking out for himself for his post-presidency, in case he needs to seal off some “Executive Privilege” for him and his friends for current presidential misdeeds? (If only Nixon could’ve gotten a few “most brilliant man I’ve ever met” syncoprants onto the court, he might have had a dissenting voice on the matter of releasing the tapes that he could have continued to flaunt the Constitution by.) Maybe Bush want to exalt Clarence Thomas to a position as Standard Bearer of Supreme Court Qualifications through a system of Grading on a Curve Default? Not a meritocracy — a mediocracy!

Maybe you can connect this with the comment made to right-wing waverers that “she will uphold the War on Terrorism”. (You know… those nasty matters involved with Gitmo and the Patriot Act.) The Military use in case of Flu Epidemics? The wave of the future: deligitimize the rest of the government, and have the military step in to help!

Or maybe she was selected for the Jesus Factor: Miers’ longtime on-and-off companion — himself a Texas Supreme Court justice — and other confidants pledge that her judicial values would be guided by the law and the Constitution. But they say her personal values have been shaped by her abiding faith in Jesus and by her membership in Valley View Christian Church, where she was baptized as an adult, served on the missions committee and taught religious classes.

Miers joined Valley View 25 years ago. She and about 150 other members split off to form a new church within the past few weeks, saying they wanted a more staid and traditional place of worship.

You know what “more staid and traditional place of worship” is code for?

Or does that move me into the David Limbaugh Theory of Christian persecution? (Because I’d prefer the seats of power affecting the course of the nation be held by people who believe the Earth came into existence sometime more than 7,000 years ago… and God metes out punishment anyways, so just let God sort’m out!)

But I hear that that George Bush is God according to Miers, so it’s all awash.

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