October 06, 2005

James Lileks writes the consummate piece often enough to rate my fondness, devotion and admiration.
This one on the SCOTUS nomination of fellow Dallas, Texan Harriet Miers takes him to new heights:
Hyperventilating Over Harriet

Here's the best part but read it all--it's hilarious and right!

The decision to appoint a relative unknown -- or, given her proximity to the Bush inner circle, an unknown relative -- has caused many on the right to open a vein and let the despair flow out into the warm bath of misery, disappointment and overextended metaphors. Why didn't Bush clone Antonin Scalia in a dish and appoint him? Here, use some stem cells if you have to. Anyone but another David Souter!

That's the great fear on the right: Souterism. A mild-mannered cipher appointed by a Bush who dons the black robe and promptly starts to eat babies. Souter! How many times have you opened the door at Halloween and seen his face on a child's mask? How many times have you waited in the doctor's office, clammy with dread, waiting for him to slap the X-rays up on the wall and point to a grayish Souter-shaped mass?
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These were the people who caught a whiff of Souterism in John Roberts' nomination, and wouldn't be happy unless a nominee announced his intention to back Souter into a corner in the cloakroom and give him a turbo-wedgie every day. Yes, the base would be happier if the Republicans acted like a party that had won all the elections, and pursued its agenda as unapologetically and brazenly as some accuse them of doing. But what does one expect? The operative word in that sentence is "Republicans," the party that dares not speak its own name.

Thank you, James! Loved it.
And Republicans and Conservatives, QUIT YOUR B*TCHING!
Ms. Miers is a fine lady or President Bush wouldn't have nominated her!
I'm sick to death of the whining, the p*ssing and the moaning over this nomination!
Lawsie, if I'd didn't know better, I'd think you were Democrats or that the President had nominated Eleanor Clift or something!
Notice the Dems can just stand back and relax and let Miers's own Right Wingnuts destroy her without breaking a sweat?
People, get a grip.
As a fellow Mustang (grad of Southern Methodist University with 3 degrees*), I look for Justice Miers to bring greater glory to our alma mater SMU, as our First Lady has.
How can we members of the VRWC expect the Senate Dems to respect President Bush's nominations when we don't, hmm?
"Advise and consent, eh?" Nowadays, everyone and their dog is a Right Wing pundit who feels compelled to share their (usually poor) opinion of Ms. Miers with all and sundry, all the time acting like little kids whom Santa didn't bring the right toy on Christmas!
Shaddup and give the legal lady some support and a chance to prove her stuff!

*I even attended S.M.U. Law School for a while before I decided that the Law wasn't for me.
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, we studied the same case law and used the same textbooks as students at Harvard and Yale Law Schools.
Just because we're down here in the Lone Star State doesn't mean it's inferior or that SMU Law School grads are inferior, so there--sticking out tongue!, you East Coast snobs!