Now, now Senator, my performing a pay-per-view abortion to show you my feelings on Roe is a no-no unless George agrees..."

October 18, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers yesterday flunked the Schumer test.

Miers met privately for about a half-hour with Sen. Charles Schumer, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and has taken a leading role in the criticism of President Bush's court picks.
But she failed to deliver when Schumer questioned her about important Supreme Court cases.
After the get-together, Schumer told reporters that he asked Miers for her views about two cases, Griswold vs. Connecticut and Meyer vs. Nebraska, which together were used by the Supreme Court to assert a constitutional "right to privacy."
Miers was mum on both cases, he said, telling him she didn't want to give an opinion.

"Was I a little surprised that she didn't want to give a view on Meyers [sic], which has been established law for decades, and you read about in law school? Yes," said Schumer.

Asked if Miers seemed familiar with the case, Schumer, a Harvard Law School grad, paused, then replied, "She didn't say anything that indicated she was, and she didn't say anything to indicate that she wasn't."

Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington Law School, called the Meyer case "fairly obscure."

"There are obviously a great number of cases you are supposed to know. That's [Meyer] not one of them," Turley said.
But Turley said the landmark Griswold case, which dealt with birth control, was an important case with which all would-be judges should be familiar.
Schumer had his own problems with the case by repeatedly mispronouncing it as "Meyers."

Asked about the embarrassing gaffe, Schumer's spokesman, Izzy Klein, replied, "He was obviously confused. Miers, Meyer — what are you gonna do?"

And that's what straight thinking Americans have been saying for years about Chuckie, what ARE you going to do. The man is such an embarassment to the very concept of Senatorial conduct, integrity and intelligence, that ANYTHING coming from his office must be viewed with the highest degree of skepticism. At this stage of the game though, the Senators are usually muttering niceties and for Chuck to come out swinging means he bought into the conservative line that Mz Harriet is so far above her head this is all just a waste of everyone's time.

And that pisses me off to no end. Not that Mz Harriet isn't deserving of criticism, but the next original idea that Senator Charles Schumer comes up with will be his first, and it galls me that so many of us provided fodder to so wretched a creature.

That being said, just wait until Biden flashes his phony grin while informing us that Harriet isn't fit to make a trip to the Post Office without chaperoning, and *Dickum then Dunkem displays total outrage at having his precious drinking, strike that, time wasted over an unprepared, unsuited, and unqualified candidate, and Dianne (Harvey Milk kicked the bucket and I snuck in) Feinstein relates to us how Mz Harriet didn't know a damned bloody thing about shoes of the Roman Empire.

*The senior Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, who while receiving oral sex from a young secretary drove his car from a bridge and left his fellatrix to drown as he hurried home to spend the evening thinking of stories to tell the police.