Miers through a different lens

While the conservatives mud-wrestle over whether Miers is reactionary enough in her religious and political views to pass muster with The Movement, David Brooks raises a different question: can she express a coherent argument? He gives examples of meandering and vacuous prose, and concludes:

It's not that Miers didn't attempt to tackle interesting subjects. She wrote about unequal access to the justice system, about the underrepresentation of minorities in the law and about whether pro bono work should be mandatory. But she presents no arguments or ideas, except the repetition of the bromide that bad things can be eliminated if people of good will come together to eliminate bad things.

Not pretty. These Republicans really like to nominate great minds for top positions -- "judges like Clarence Thomas" indeed...