Another Angry Conservative II & III

John Podhoretz also thinks Harriet Miers is a crony selection:

Without the patronage of George W. Bush, Harriet Miers is nothing more than a fairly obscure lawyer from Texas who served as president of a relatively minor law firm and served in state government on a lottery commission for five years.

They are the kind of credentials that might, under other circumstances, get someone a post as assistant secretary of labor, or even (in an administration’s second term after a productive stint in the White House) a minor Cabinet post. These are not credentials for the U.S. Supreme Court, whose nine members essentially preside over the third co-equal branch of the federal government.

The editors of National Review aren’t impressed either, arguing that Miers is little more than “a Bush loyalist and friend.”