I Am Not Very Impressed With George Will

BUT ON THIS ISSUE THE MAN IS RIGHT.

In an advance copy of his new column that is making its way around the blogosphere (found above on Southern Appeal, which is a hotspot of Miers analysis), Will tears into the Miers nomination.

EXCERPTS:

Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules.

First, it is not important that she be confirmed.

Second, it might be very important that she not be.

Third, the presumption — perhaps rebuttable but certainly in need of rebutting — should be that her nomination is not a defensible exercise of presidential deference to which senatorial discretion is due.

It is not important that she be confirmed because there is no evidence that she is among the leading lights of American jurisprudence, or that she possesses talents commensurate with the Supreme Court’s tasks. The president’s ‘‘argument’’ for her amounts to: Trust me. There is no reason to, for several reasons. . . .

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin