With friends like these . . .
I'm starting to feel bad for Harriet Miers. Consider, for example, this comment one of her backers made in today's Times. Keep in mind he's defending her right to serve on the Supreme Court."If great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole," Mr. Coats said in a CNN interview.
Is he saying the stupid people of America deserve representation too? Because my spouse would argue they took care of that last fall.
posted by AnnaRay at 11:38 AM
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She is, as Jon Stewart artfully pointed out, a frequent Talbot's shopper.
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I guess my biggest problem with his comment is the implication that the SCOTUS is somehow supposed to represent the United States population. It's not. Neither is the POTUS. That's what we have Congress for. As much as the liberal in me thinks that it's nice to have minorities and women on the Court, if the most qualified candidate is an elderly white guy, then up he should go.
But the president doesn't seem to be particularly concerned with "qualified" right now, which in a larger "liberal v. conservative" sense is really kind of funny. In a sad way.
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