Miers Can't Take The Heat - Thank Goodness!

President Bush received a stay of execution today with the withdrawal of Harriet Miers from contention for the Supreme Court, replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. President Bush looks currently like someone who is in the ring with Mike Tyson. He might be able to Buster Douglas his detractors but there are a lot of folks out there barking protests and criticisms of him.

Faced with potential indictments from the trumped up Grand Jury investigating the leak of CIA employee Valerie Plame(notice I did not say operative because she was never covert), the ususal tripe from the far left, high gas prices and an appearance of impropriety because of the President's former ties to oil, and Iraq reaching the 2,000 death mark - but it is all noise.

Harriet Miers, however was different. She was hand picked by President Bush to sit on the court. It was obvious from the beginning she was not qualified. Laura Ingram is more qualified than she. Her writings were not scholarly nor grammatically correct. It was purely an appointment out of convenience and comfprt for the President. He knew her, liked her, respected her ability as an attorney and her religious views, BUT she was not qualified for the court.

It is a blessing that she has withdrawn her name from contention. If she had faced the Senate hearings, her testimony juxtaposed with Judge Robert's would have been comical at best and depressing at worst.

I hope now President Bush looks to a pool of really qualified candidates like J. Michael Luttig, Priscilla Owen,or even Larry Thompson, who was the government's highest-ranking black law enforcement official as deputy attorney general during Bush's first term. A constructionist is important for the future of this country.