October 6, 2005
Breaking the resume ceiling
In the days since President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the highest court in the land, we have learned one thing from many pundits on the Right: Ms. Miers does not have the resume to fill one of nine seats on the Supreme Court. As one who sits on a couch in a Red State (watching Fox News with a bucket of popcorn on my lap), I am astounded that George Wills of the world do not recognize the irony of this selection: George Bush, it was said, did not have the resume to be President.
George Bush does have degrees from Harvard and Yale. In fact, he is the first in the Oval Office to hold an MBA. But he was a 'C—student,' right? His detractors said that he avoided military service in Vietnam and oversaw an oil business that went bust. He used his daddy's name to gain ownership of the Texas Rangers where he committed the game's biggest blunder in the trading of Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. (By the way, they...(Read Full Post)