Fly On The Wall...

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"Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks. Yet it now seems clear--even well before her Senate hearings--that this selection has become a political blunder of the first order.

Especially in the wake of his success with John Roberts, President Bush had a rare opportunity to fulfill his campaign pledge to change the Court by nominating someone in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. In the process, he would have rallied his most fervent supporters and helped to educate the country about proper Constitutional interpretation. Instead, he picked a woman who was his personal and White House counsel, and who was unknown to nearly everyone outside the White House and his Texas circle..."

C'mon guys, he was ducking a fight and blundered into one. Fly on the wall time?

"Dayum, Laura, but there's so much on ma plate I caint think straight no mores. Need a break somehow, somewheres, and now there's this Sandra Dee O'Connell retirin' and old Rehny hadda go and die on my ass, and ya think I'm rarin' ta take on them boys by appointin' that Brown Rogers gal? No sirree bob I ain't. Karol calls it 'diffusin' one's energies', kinda like a slow leak a'dribblin' from the horse trough..."

" I'm sorry, hon, and it's Sandra Day O'Conner if anybody should ask, and your idee man is Karl, not Karol, and it's Janice Rogers Brown too for that matter, but why donch'ya'll put up somebody there's no bounty on? Kinda like yer secretary..."

"Ma secertery? You mean Hermienie? Huh...Harriet? Her name's Harriet? Dayum but if I ain't called her Hermienie for alla these years, ha, don't that beat all. But Hermie, Harriet's just a go-phers gal, Laura. She's good in a tax scrape but bein' a Supreme Courter is the highest thang a lawyer kin ask for and, and, and wait just a durl garned minute. Ya know, you might have somethin' there, sweetcakes. Harriet. Well, she ain't got no middle name and all im-portint people gots middle names but there's nobody who'll go nukulur on my ass if I nominate her..."