Miers Nominated for Supreme Court

by M. Guardinian

copyright 2005 all rights reserved

 

It must be one of the biggest job promotions ever.  From City Council Woman, to President of the Texas Bar Association to Counsel for the White House to...Supreme Court Justice? 

 

That's right.  It is as if President Bush ran out of people (insert "experienced judges" here) from his Rolodex and was running out of ideas.  Desperate, he asks his counsel to take the job.

 

In my mind, it's almost fathomable.  Bush, weary from Grand Jury-indicted cabinet members, stacks of resignations from administration post holders, now wonders who, from his network of constituents, might take on the daunting task of replacing the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.  Who, he wonders, will interpret the Constitution from a staunch Republican, Anglo-Saxon perspective and still keep the liberals from leaping out of their skin?  He can think of no one.  He stirs his tea and thinks.  But his mind is blank.  Alas, a break in the silence as a knock on the door and Counsel for the White House Harriet Miers pokes her head in.  He has never been so happy to see anyone in his life! 

 

Yeah, she...she can do it!  She's been a lawyer.  No experience as a judge but hey, that's okay.

 

So one day, you're the White House majordomo with a Texas Bar Association post under your belt and as if by magic, "ala ka zam!" you're up for the Supreme Court.  Never mind all the folks who worked as judges for years and years, interpreting the law.  Nope.  It's Bush Administration thinking once again following the same pattern, asking the same question when an all-to-often job vacancy opens, "Who's still on our team?  Where can we put them?"

 

As if the Administration had reduced the whole situation of war, natural disaster, divided country, fuel crisis and high unemployment to a game of chess.  The "Us and Them" philosophy is making heavy work for the players involved and the Bush Administration is down quite a few power pieces. 

 

Heads up King George.  A pawn from Texas does not a Supreme Court Justice make.