Harriet Miers: Dunce

Harriet Miers is taking lessons. Lessons in how not to look so overtly unqualified when her confirmation hearings begin next month. After a chat with Judiciary committee member Chuck Schumer revealed that ol' Harriet might actually know less than her already low expectations implied, the White House has decided to give Harriet time to do some studying. Time to find out what all this 'Supreme Court' business is about. She needs to study hard if she wants to succeed. The last thing she wants is to end up like that troublemaker Clarence always copying off his buddy Antonin.

Michael Goodwin has a great column on this in the Daily News...
She's already failed

...The final straw is a plan to delay the start of her Senate confirmation hearings, tentatively set for Nov. 7. It seems Miers has some cramming to do before she can face the Judiciary Committee. She needs, Sen. Chuck Schumer says, "some time to learn" about key constitutional cases. The panel chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), was quoted as saying, "It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready."

Before she's ready? In plain English, they're talking about remedial education. Not since the City University of New York ended the insidious practice ofdumbing down its standards has a government institution stooped so low to accommodate an unqualified applicant...

Also- Daily News editorial for today:
Harriet Miers' uphill climb