The first question I want asked

[jmowreader]

"First, I'd like to thank Ms. Miers for being here today.

"Now for my first question. Please, Ms. Miers, while remembering that you are under oath, describe to us your actions in 1998 involving the review of then-Governor Bush's Texas Air National Guard file as mentioned in a summer 2000 issue of Newsweek."

[Theres-a]

1. Yes! nt

[rateyes]

2. And the answer...

"I cannot violate attorney-client privilege."

Lame answer, yes, but the answer nonetheless.

[triguy46]

3. You're prob right, but...

I could also imagine "I cannot comment on a case that I might have to adjudicate." I'm hinting, not so subtlely, that 'recusal' is a four letter word to these folks.

[jmowreader]

4. In reality, I'm not looking for an answer

This because I know she can't violate attorney-client privilege.

I want to see the look on her face.

[PurityOfEssence]

5. By the way, what happened to all those files?

Seems to me there used to be all sorts of documents about Junior's little frolicking in the TANG. Did you help cleanse them?

[gratuitous]

6. The only question she'll answer (and this is by no means for sure)

"What's your favorite color?"

Because everything else is going to be cloaked by the shroud of attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, or some other bogus excuse. And because the Senate Democrats didn't insist on seeing Roberts' entire record, they can't very well hold up Miers' nomination for anything so picayune as, you know, what the nominee might actually think or what any of her actual qualifications might be. She's got a bar ticket, so go piss up a rope.

Now, I suppose it's just possible that some Democrat in the Senate, somewhere, might muse, "You know, maybe we shouldn't just install folks in lifetime sinecures without a little closer inspection of their record. We owe it to the American people, not to mention fulfilling our constitutional mandate to advise and consent, to inquire a little further into this nominee and not be satisfied with the administration's 'none of your beeswax' approach."

Naaaaaahh.