Bush picks another Texas crony to fill O'Connor Supreme Court vacancy

Memo to self: Buy stock in eyeliner

Bush's little gang is getting smaller and more incestuous all the time, and it was pretty small to begin with. Now Bush reaches once again into the stagnant pool of Texas conservatives, apparently the only people he knows or trusts, circling the wagons and dipping back into the whacky well of Texas corporate conservatism for his second Supreme Court pick.

Texas conservatism has been a deep pool of stupidity, corruption, and bizarre notions for decades, as anyone who has read Molly Ivins or has paid even glancing attention to Texas politics knows well.

And we've all gotten to go along on the ride Bush and his gang of Texans have taken the country. They're corrupt, bizarre, and apparently from another planet, full of hot air and bombast, and possessed of some notions that defy catagorization.

59 year old Harriet Miers (Who?), a woman who has never spent a minute in judges robes or on the bench, is Bush's pick. She's been a long-time crony of Junior's since back when he was a do-nothing Governor of Texas, and has never issued an opinion in her life, which Bush thinks is an asset. That way there is absolutely no record of prior rulings to judge her fitness for the position, suggesting strongly that the White House wants to sneak her onto the court as they did Roberts. It's clear that the Republicans seem to suggest that anyone who actually tries to discern the temperment or inclinations of any of their nominees to the Supreme Court of the land is horribly out of line. They want us to believe that the mere fact that Bush picked them ought to be all the assurance the American people need that these lifetime appointments affecting every citizen is just fine.

Bush is touting her status as a woman, noting that she was the first woman to become head of her law firm, and first female president of the Texas Bar Association.

Wow!! They let a WOMAN be president of something? In Texas?

Miers has never been married or had children, and with a record of clawing her way to the top in the swamp of the Texas bar, you can imagine just how warm and cuddly she is.

Besides being a current White House council, she used to be Junior's personal lawyer. And Lord knows you'd have to be ready for anything in that position.

Much like Cheney before her, Miers was actually responsible for finding a nominee and picked herself.

An interesting Law.com article on Miers notes how she, like many others in the Bush administration has "failed upward".

David Frum, Bush's former speechwriter who attained infamy for authoring the phrase "axis of evil". His bragging wife then sent multiple e-mails all over town crowing about it's inclusion in Bush's SOTU speech. Frum was forced out shortly thereafter. Oooops... sorry dear. But even little David is pretty bummed about Miers, as revealed on his blog at the National Review where he reveals that Miers considers George W. Bush "the most brilliant man she has ever met." (she's GOT to get out more. That's scary, is it not?) Frum apparently has since amended his blog.

And Miers has already started her own blog. (CAUTION: Extremely funny. Don't click if you've recently had surgery or suffer from a weak bladder.)