Wednesday, October 12, 2005

 

The Trouble With Harriet



is the same as in the 1955 Hitchcock classic: She (or at least her nomination) is very inconveniently dead, and by spectacle's end, everyone will think that he or she had a hand in it.

Bush has now botched a bad initial choice even further, by injecting her religious beliefs into the hearings. But since a number of GOP Senators can be expected to lose their religion over this one, I suggest that the Democrats break out the blowtorches, and go full Inherit The Wind on her ass, asking a lot of impertinent questions about her church practices -- Does she speak in tongues? Handle snakes? Roll in the aisles?

Did God make the world in six days, Ms. Miers? Did Jonah get swallowed by the Whale?

For liberals, the choice should be a no-brainer: Competency issues aside, we can't afford any more Executive Branch Davidians on the Court -- especially on the issue of detainee torture (or as I like to call it, "war crimes"). I recognize, however, that the tendency of certain Justices to confuse "President" with "King" can be expected to wax and wane in tandem with the Republican Party's electoral fortunes. For this reason, you can expect that Democratic Presidents will continue to be sued, while Republican Presidents won't even be questioned.

posted by Michael 10:54 PM