Cronyism, Part 543

MANIFESTO

The Boy King has picked longtime friend and devout BK loyalist Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Conner on the Supreme Court. Here's her dossier. Since I know nothing about her, here a little background on what type of jurist she may be. Sounds like another Roberts-type. It also can be read that the President is starting to feel the pressure of all his recent (and monumental) foul ups. From TPM Cafe:

...Miers is a "stealth" candidate, who has not written or spoken much about the key issues that fill the Supreme Court's current docket. Presidents will turn to such candidates when they have to please many different constituencies in their party and when they face the prospect of a significant confirmation fight if they choose an ideological stalwart. President Bush is often said to avoid the sorts of decisions his father made, but in this respect George Bush is taking a page from his father's playbook. Hoping to avoid the confirmation battle over Robert Bork, President George H.W. Bush chose David Souter, about whom little was known when he was first nominated. (Unlike Souter, Miers is a stealth candidate about whom the President has lots of information unavailable to the public.) Choosing a stealth candidate is a sign that the President wants to avoid a fight, either because he is in a relatively weak political position, because he fears that his supporters disagree among themselves, or because he would rather expend his energies and influence elsewhere.

My first reaction is I'm glad BK hasn't nominated an obvious Thomas/Scalia type. There was some talk that because BK is doing so poorly in the polls, he would pick someone devisive in order to pick a fight with the Democrat minority and rally his base. It doesn't seem like that has happened. We'll obviously know a little more in the coming weeks before the inevitable hearing where she artfully refuses to say anything.