Charles Krauthammer Says: Withdraw Miers Nomination

Charles Krauthammer takes President Bush to the woodshed over the Harriet Miers nomination. Not just once…

…nominating a constitutional tabula rasa to sit on what is America’s constitutional court is an exercise of regal authority with the arbitrariness of a king giving his favorite general a particularly plush dukedom.

…but over…

To nominate someone whose adult life reveals no record of even participation in debates about constitutional interpretation is an insult to the institution and to that vision of the institution.

…and over…

The issue is not the venue of Miers’s constitutional scholarship, experience and engagement. The issue is their nonexistence.

…again…

To nominate someone whose adult life reveals no record of even participation in debates about constitutional interpretation is an insult to the institution and to that vision of the institution.

There’s lots more.Krauthammer also zings Congressmen and our 28th President.

He must have been highly motivated.



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