[beckett]

From Brooks' column:

In the early '90s, while she was president of the Texas bar association, Miers wrote a column called "President's Opinion" for The Texas Bar Journal. It is the largest body of public writing we have from her, and sad to say, the quality of thought and writing doesn't even rise to the level of pedestrian.

Nothing excuses sentences like this: "More and more, the intractable problems in our society have one answer: broad-based intolerance of unacceptable conditions and a commitment by many to fix problems."

Or this: "We must end collective acceptance of inappropriate conduct and increase education in professionalism."

Or this: "When consensus of diverse leadership can be achieved on issues of importance, the greatest impact can be achieved."

Or passages like this: "An organization must also implement programs to fulfill strategies established through its goals and mission. Methods for evaluation of these strategies are a necessity. With the framework of mission, goals, strategies, programs, and methods for evaluation in place, a meaningful budgeting process can begin."

I don't know if by mere quotation I can fully convey the relentless march of vapid abstractions that mark Miers' prose. Nearly every idea is vague and depersonalized. Nearly every debatable point is elided. It's not that Miers didn't attempt to tackle interesting subjects. She wrote about unequal access to the justice system, about the underrepresentation of minorities in the law and about whether pro bono work should be mandatory. But she presents no arguments or ideas, except the repetition of the bromide that bad things can be eliminated if people of good will come together to eliminate bad things.

Throw aside ideology. Surely the threshold skill required of a Supreme Court justice is the ability to write clearly and argue incisively.

How on God's good earth did George Bush think he could get away with putting such an unqualified, mediocre crony on the court? She is going to get sliced and diced before the committee.

[af_vet_1981]

I prefer one simple Justice who knows the difference between right and wrong and applies it to a myriad of intellectual giants who force sodomy, pornography, abortion, illegal aliens, unjust eminent domain seizures, unjust restriction of our right to keep and bear arms, and absurd restrictions against G-d and the Ten Commandments from our institutions.

Your mental giants have given us all these abominations.

[TAdams8591]

It would seem as it has been described, the obsessive tendency of Miss Miers to reveal little about herself and her opinions, stunted the development of the same opinions as well as her thought processes and writing skills.

[Moonman62]

How on God's good earth did George Bush think he could get away with putting such an unqualified, mediocre crony on the court?

Laura made him do it.

She is going to get sliced and diced before the committee.

By the Democrats or the Republicans?

[Reaganghost]

"Surely the threshold skill required of a Supreme Court justice is the ability to write clearly and argue incisively."

I guess those were the skills that so many Justices have used to convince us that the Constitution doesn't really mean what we think it says or that "shall not" actually means "except when".

I knew that little bugger was in there somewhere that the Supreme Court Justices wouldn't let Congress just take my paycheck and give part of it to the 65 year old millionaire next door or buy his wife's mammograms.

[Digger]

How on God's good earth did George Bush think he could get away with putting such an unqualified, mediocre crony on the court? She is going to get sliced and diced before the committee.

I for one can not believe this to be happening. Did he ever think about his base? I doubt it because I believe that he feels -like most all in this corrupted "Two-Party Cartel" - that there is no other place for us to go. We will see who is out supporting this group next election.