Ramesh & Rich, I never got as far as the compelling beverage fetching argument in the American Thinker piece. Lifson had long lost me by then.

Here’s what he flies out of the gate with, the very begining of Sentence One: “President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School …” But just a few sentences later, obviously satisfied that he’s established a rationale for supporting Miers in POTUS’s credentials, he moves on to what we are to glean from Ms. Miers’s own credentials, and pronounces: “The GOP is not the party which idolizes Ivy League acceptability as the criterion of intellectual and mental fitness.”

FWIW, I actually agree with the last assertion, but I confess to gettin’ a little dizzy here.