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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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3 October 2005 - 3:41 pm
It's extremely interesting that Bush chose Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court given how easy Michael Brown has made it to level charges of cronyism against his administration. Is being confirmable* so much more important than legal acumen? I suspect that W simply finds the __________ he knows to be more acceptable than the __________ he doesn't know. In this case, fill in the blank with lawyer, although vice-president and FEMA director seem to have been some of W's past responses to this version of mad libs.
* Much is being made of Miers' lack of a legal track record, but I assume that the Senators will simply switch from examining legal opinions that the nominee has written to examining cases argued both by Ms. Miers and the firm she headed in Dallas. This is somewhat murky as the firm could easily argue positions that aren't Ms. Miers', but that would only seem to be good news for someone bent on destroying her candidacy.
Posted by on 3 October 2005 at 3:33 PM
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I'm amazed at his choice too and was about to post on it. think I will...
Posted by rkc on 7 October 2005 - 6:07 AM