DAMN. This pisses me off. There are HUGELY qualified, certified conservative jurists out there, including women, who are eminently more qualified than Ms. Miers. No doubt she's a fine lawyer, but when they have to cite the presidency of state and city bar associations as highlights of her career, it speaks volumes. She'll have a hard time getting a "qualified" rating from the ABA (not that I care much about the ABA). After Roberts, this seems like a bad joke.
I've been a staunch supporter of Bush, but I am DEEPLY disappointed. The most important issue for me in terms of domestic politics (i.e., not including keeping the terrorists out) is the composition of the Supreme Court. All the socialistic New Deal-type programs in the world, all the identity-politics pandering, all the pork, all the executive excesses--none of them pose a greater threat to the Constitution and our republic than federal Supreme Court justices "legislating" from the bench. The Court is the reason I started making political contributions to the Republican National Senate Committee--so it could regain the majority and confirm conservative judges and justices. Not so it could reward anonymous political functionaries.
I'm not just disappointed, I'm pissed. I hope I'm wrong about Miers, but this is the first time I've felt genuinely let down by Bush.
I can't even turn on the TV to watch it.
I will never ever give another cent to the Republican party. I am done.