Stolen Rhetoric

I've been too lazy to comment on Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Plus, George Will really did say it best. With that said, however, I can't help but steal rhetoric from a friend:

I really would like another woman on the supreme court but it just seems so lazy to nominate your own personal lawyer for the job. I mean is his personal doctor going to be surgeon general next or how about nominating your driver to be transportation secretary?

Just to add some original thoughts of my own (which I stole from Nikos), wouldn't it have been great if Bush had nominated California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court?

From a 2000 speech she gave to the Federalist Society, in which she quotes Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman:

Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens. It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse - whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism - has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of the Constitution, and the character of our people. Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.

Sitting here in Washington, DC watching the federal government expand dramatically in the face of its failure to adequately respond to Hurricane Katrina, I can't help but say "god damn, she's right!"

UPDATE: Good Washington Post story on the growing anti-Miers conservative uprising here.