...recently unearthed mash notes from Miss Hathaway to Mr. Drysdale.
Meanwhile, in this week's New Republic, Jeffrey Rosen tries to earn his Counterintuitive Merit Badge by limply dicking around with the argument that historical precedent hints that maybe Miss Hathaway won't be so bad on the court, maybe we'll get lucky, stranger things have happened, a piece laced with such comic delights such as "There is no evidence that Harriet Miers is dumb, but she isn't noted for her intellectual creativity."
Still, Rosen thinks there's an outside chance that Miss Hathaway might sprout into a good pointillistic-detail justice, like Lewis Powell. But he cautions, "For Miers to follow in Powell's footsteps, she will have to transcend her loyalty to the president who appointed her."
Forget that. She is a loyalist in every lovestruck bone of her birdlike body.
