Hrm?

“You are the best governor ever – deserving of great respect,” Harriet E. Miers wrote to George W. Bush days after his 51st birthday in July 1997. She also found him “cool,” said he and his wife, Laura, were “the greatest!” and told him: “Keep up the great work. Texas is blessed.”

I’m thinking back to just a few months ago, some of John Roberts’s documents were in hiding, others dribbled out… they generally told us about his politics, which were then debated (essentially whether being a client for the Reagan or Bush administrations meant that these were his opinions — hard to figure that they wouldn’t be.)

With Harriet Miers we get… something entirely different.

In October 1997, Ms. Miers sent Mr. Bush a flowery greeting card in thanks for a letter that he had written on her behalf. In it, she said of his daughters: “Hopefully Jenna and Barbara recognize that their parents are ‘cool’ – as do the rest of us.”

She added, “All I hear is how great you and Laura are doing,” and ended, “Texas is blessed.”

So. Do Jeanna and Barbara realize that they have “cool” parents? (As a rule, no kid should desire “cool parents”, in the case of the Bush twins that would mean doing The Butt Dance with them.)

I note that Sam Sedar, of Air America Radio’s “Majority Report Radio” was followed by Ann Coulter who was followed by more than one political cartoonist in suggesting Bush appoint his dog to Supreme Court Justice instead of Miers.

And now, lifted from Eric Hananoki’s blog, which is the Al Franken Show blog, is perhaps the bottom line in the case against Harriet Miers.:

Harriet used to keep a humidor full of M&M’s in her West Wing office. It wasn’t a huge secret. She’d stash some boxes of the coveted red, white, and blue M&M’s in specially made boxes bearing George W. Bush’s reprinted signature. Her door was always open and the M&M’s were always available. I dared ask one time why they were there. Her answer: “I like M&M’s, and I like sharing.”

Do these things matter at all when it comes to her qualifications for being an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court? Yes. They speak to her character. And in matters of justice, matters of character count.

The case against Harriet Miers is that the case for Harriet Miers is that she is generous with her M & Ms.

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