A Crony for the Court

After coming under withering criticism for cronyism, Bush turns around and appoints a crony to the Supreme Court.

Other than being a successful corporate lawyer in Texas - oh, and don’t forget, she served one term on the Dallas City Council, Bush boasted - the only qualification that Harriet Miers has is that she's ridden the W wave.

She's been inside the sanctum sanctorum for quite a while now.

She was Bush's personal lawyer in Texas.

She worked as counsel for his 1994 gubernatorial campaign.

When he won, he appointed her to head the Lottery Commission.

She also proved indispensable in a carrying out a delicate assignment in 1998, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, During Bush's reelection campaign for governor, she was put in charge of squelching rumors about Bush's dubious National Guard service. His campaign "actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal preemptive probe of the potential scandal."