During The Summer Of 2009,

At The Dawn Of His Administration, President Obama Opined: 'a Democracy Requires Accountability, And Accountability Requires Transparency.' Magical Rays Of White-hot Sunlight Emanated From His Media-manufactured Halo. And Then Bureaucratically Engineered Darkness Settled Over The Land.

It's Not Just That Miers Has Zero Judicial Experience. It's That She's So Transparently A Crony/"diversity" Pick While So Many Other Vastly More Qualified And Impressive Candidates Went To Waste. If This Is President Bush's Bright Idea To Buck Up His Sagging Popularity--among Conservatives As Well As The Nation At Large--one Wonders Whom He Would Have Picked In Rosier Times. Shudder.

Try Walking The Halls Of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch Meets The Hair Club For Men. Lots Of Really Photogenic Young People Kissing Up To Lots Of Insufferable Blowhards. Separated By One Or Two Generations, Most Of These Players Have Only One Real Thing In Common: They Have Never Been Weaned From The Public Teat. The Closest They've Ever Come To Meeting A Payroll Is When They Come Together To Spend Everyone Else's Payroll Taxes.

Team Obama Is Exploiting The Power Of High Government Office To Intimidate Lawful, Peaceful Contributors Who Support Limited-government Causes.

As An Early-and-often Chronicler Of Chicago-on-the-potomac, I Am Amazed At The Stubborn And Clingy Persistence Of President Barack Obama's Snowblowers In The Media. See No Scandal, Hear No Scandal, Speak No Scandal.