So appearently no one likes this new Bush nominee

Well I figured I'd give a shot at doing this political blogging stuff. So this morning I was listening to Imus and he says at 8 AM Bush is announcing the new nominee to replace Justice O'Connor. Now I'm an insominac and I sleep with the radio on just because I like to know whats going on during the day. So when I wake up I have Rush on a caller is talking about how Bush sold everyone out.

He nominated Harriet Miers and well no one knows who the hell she is. Everyone on the right is screaming murder because Bush sold them out because he's making the same mistake his father made in nominating someone with no real record so there's no way to know where she stands. Liberals on the other hand are praising this nomination so that pretty much tells you that the GOP is going to be inbetween a rock and a hard place come confirmation time.

Now I'm not a republican so I dont really care about their party issues, but we're going to see a good old fashion party split because of this. The party leadership is basically in line with Bush and then you have moderates who go against the grain so to speak.

But who is this woman causing all this trouble?

According to this article, there's a reason this unknown might get the job of a lifetime.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002383.html

White House counsel Harriet Miers has never served as a judge before, and while this career "hard-nosed lawyer" (as she is invariably described) from Texas certainly deserves some kudos for a trailblazing career as a female lawyer, she's not a legal scholar, either.

But she does know better than just about anyone else where the bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar cover-up of the scandal.

Lets see if this bit of information comes out on the media in the next few days.

Thanks to my friends at http://www.conspiracycafe.net for digging that up. Its a great place to post if you want to know what is really going on.

So who knows whats gonna happen. I'm not going to waste my time with what if's. There's alot of time between now and the confirmation hearings. If the backlash is big enough she might just step down.

But call me crazy but I always thought you had to be a judge to even get nominated to the court.

That makes sense to me. Nominate a Judge to be a Judge.