This White House is just unbelievable. I cannot even begin to wrap my head around how cynical these people are.

One of my first thoughts was, "let's check to see if she was involved in the Plame investigation."

I suppose we all know what our work is today--trying to figure out who the hell this woman is. Other than a loyal, close confidante of the president.

Naah. I think our job is to be calling and writing our senators, urging them to tell Bush to throw this one back and try again. He got his one stealth nominee with John Roberts. I'm not willing to roll the dice on someone without a record a second time--especially when her only apparent qualifications for the post are being a Republican woman who likes Bush.

Wait... what is good enough for Ginsburg isn't good enough for Harriet Miers?

Without a doubt both Roberts and Miers are closer to the center than Ginsburg.

no roberts is not close to the center of anything. not foaming at the mouth and pronouncing women as chattle does not a moderate make.

yet you are right about ginsburg in some ways. she was a woman and liked clinton. and has put in some ignorant rulings (Kelo much?!)

See Eric- us lefties don't sit around approving of whatever the Democrats do either.

I dunno what you're smoking, Eric, but when President Clinton put Justice Ginsburg up for nomination to the Supreme Court, she'd been a federal appeals judge since 1981, when President Carter appointed her to the D.C. Circuit. She had also been a law school professor at Columbia since 1972, the same year she became the first head of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. She began her career as a professor of law in 1963--or 30 years before President Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court.

Ginsburg had a long track record. She also had trial experience before the Court, and experience on the federal bench. Miers has none of those things. The only thing she has in common with Justice Ginsburg is two X chromosomes.