George W. Bush took a big swing at the ball on the O’Connor replacement tee but he topped it. The ball bounced a few yards ahead of him and then dribbled on a bit before coming to rest before the gallery. Even his most avid fans didn’t think he could recover from such a terrible shot, so they suggested he take a mulligan. Will he feel the shame?
The New York Times comments on Miers’ own “do-over” in this editorial from the Thursday edition:
Ms. Miers had an opportunity to win over the skeptics this week with her answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questionnaire. But her responses were so unimpressive that the top Republican and Democrat on that committee took the extraordinary step yesterday of instructing her to give it another try, this time with more “particularity and precision.” She thus became perhaps the most important judicial nominee in history to be offered what amounts to a do-over on a take-home quiz.
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President Bush has either picked a court nominee so underqualified that she cannot even go through the motions competently, or he believes that once he gives his personal endorsement to a candidate, the Senate will silently fall into line. But the founding fathers made it clear that filling vacancies in the judicial branch is the joint responsibility of the president and the Senate, and at this point the senators are beginning to look downright offended.
Read Miers’ responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questionnaire here.
L.A. Times story here.
Well it’s good to see senators from both sides take their jobs seriously. Their scrutiny may result in another big failure for President Bush.
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