I'd recommend David Brooks' column in this morning's NYT, where he offers some snippets from "President's Opinion," the column Miers wrote when she was president of the Texas Bar Association. Here's a sample:

"There is always a necessity to tend to a myriad of responsibilities on a number of cases as well as matters not directly related to the practice of law." And yet, "Disciplining ourselves to provide the opportunity for thought and analysis has to rise again to a high priority."

I picked that at random from Brooks' selections. Sounds just like Scalia or Thomas, doesn't it?

Actually, sounds like what any lawyer would say.

Er, or were you being sarcastic?

Robbo, my point (shamelessly lifted from Brooks) was that Miers tends to write in vapid abstractions. Scalia and Thomas both write clearly and incisively, in different ways. My sarcasm flopped because I don't write all that well; luckily, nobody wants to see me on the Supreme Court.

Me neither, praise God.

'Course, to be fair to Miers on this quote, this is exactly the sort of fluff I always see in Bar Association magazines, perhaps because it can be knocked off in about five minutes. I would hope that her, shall we say, varsity efforts would be a bit more weighty and concise.

But then again, there's no way to tell, is there?

I find it amusing that conservatives are shocked, shocked I say, that the WH would attack the critics instead of the message. This has been a fundamental tactic since day one. Isn’t this the exact reason half of the WH is currently under investigation by that partisan hack Fitzgerald?