[JackWhite]

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Sure but it's infinitely more enjoyable when it's made blatantly obvious that you've been decieved / betrayed.

You were promised a justice "in the mold of Scalia and Thomas".

And to top it off, she's 60 friggin years old!

I get happier by the minute. You've got to be wondering "what's the use in even having a 55 seat majority?"

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Here is former White House insider David Frum on the choice:

"I worked with Harriet Miers. She's a lovely person: intelligent, honest, capable, loyal, discreet, dedicated ... I could pile on the praise all morning. But nobody would describe her as one of the outstanding lawyers in the United States. And there is no reason at all to believe either that she is a legal conservative or - and more importantly - that she has the spine and steel necessary to resist the pressures that constantly bend the American legal system toward the left.

I am not saying that she is not a legal conservative. I am not saying that she is not steely. I am saying only that there is no good reason to believe either of these things. Not even her closest associates on the job have [any] good reason to believe either of these things. In other words, we are being asked by this president to take this appointment purely on trust, without any independent reason to support it. And that is not a request conservatives can safely grant."