President picks his former staff secretary for SCOTUS...

The President this morning named Harriet Miers as his nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. When the President first took office, she was his staff secretary. She has since moved up to become White House Counsel.

Via Matt Yglesias over at TPM Cafe, I bring you this tidbit from David Frum posted on National Review Online.

I believe I was the first to float the name of Harriet Miers, White House counsel, as a possible Supreme Court. Today her name is all over the news. I have to confess that at the time, I was mostly joking. Harriet Miers is a capable lawyer, a hard worker, and a kind and generous person. She would be an reasonable choice for a generalist attorney, which is indeed how George W. Bush first met her. She would make an excellent trial judge: She is a careful and fair-minded listener. But US Supreme Court?

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met. She served Bush well, but she is not the person to lead the court in new directions - or to stand up under the criticism that a conservative justice must expect.

Read the rest of the disappointment here.

At first glance, I simply do not believe that being a friend of the President is a sufficient qualification to be named to the Supreme Court. Additionally, I don't believe that President's right flank is going to be satisfied with this pick.

This should be fun to watch.