Why am I not surprised?

** Sorry I've been gone so long...I know of at least one faithful reader who checked this blog every day since the 15th of September to see if I'd updated (hi Dad!) Anyway, this day job thing is reeeeeeally cramping my style. Again. So here's hoping my new schedule (of waking up at 5:30AM every morning to write before work) will put me back on blogging for a while. **

Okay so can we talk about Bush's latest attempt to $(*#$@ up the Supreme Court? He named Harriet Miers, current White House counsel as his nominee to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat. Shockingly, there are several things about this particular nomination that annoyed me.

a) Here we have another exampled of Bush naming a close friend/insider/financial supporter to an extremely important position. This is not news. Bush naming a moderate, anti-war, smart, experienced gay man to the job, now THAT would be news. Are we just giving anyone work now? You know Harriet was just walking down the street, minding her own business, when Bush saw her and said "HEY! Y'all wanna be a justice??" Are you trying to tell me there is not ONE qualified, smart, experienced moderate female out there? NO? Just me?

b) She's got no judicial experience. This scares me. I mean, that'd be like a football coach pulling a random fan out of the stands to play starting quarterback. NO clue how she'll perform, but what the heck, let's give her a shot. Uhhh, no thanks. I mean, even nominating Judge Judy would be a little less of a gamble, and how cool would Supreme Court sessions be with HER? Hey, if you don't have to have experience, why don't we throw Miss Piggy up there? Okay, wait...that's even cooler than the Judge Judy bit. But I digress.

c) To his credit, Bush did name a woman (they SAY she's a woman...but has anyone looked into that? Have we actually checked?? Are we sure it isn't Dick Cheney in drag??) At any rate, sith a name like Harriet, what else is she gonna do?? This poor woman got type cast at birth...even "Sandra Day O'Connor" sounds like a movie star. "Harriet Miers" sounds like the town librarian. How are we gonna get young girls interested in law if our legal role models are RUTH AND HARRIET!???

d) The conservatives are all in a flutter about Bush not naming a conservative. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Shut up.

It just drives me crazy. That whether you want to be FEMA director or Supreme Court Justice, all it takes is a checkbook, Texas liscence plates, and a total and complete lack of experience in your field of choice.

Somebody wake me up when it's 2008.