Trust, but verify

KRT Wire | 10/03/2005 | Miers possesses qualities important to Bush: loyalty, trustworthiness

Following Bush's election as governor, Miers accepted a part-time appointment as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission, which had been beset by corruption charges.

During her five years on the commission, sales fell and the commission fired two lottery directors. But The Dallas Morning News editorialized that Miers deserved high marks for restoring integrity to the commission.

Isn't removing corruption from the Lottery kinda like removing crime from the Mafia?

Overall, I figure that Bush is picking somebody who he trusts to be a conservative on the court. He knows this person, and his judgement is probably correct.

It is interesting to see all of the hostility toward her, particularly from the right. I suspect that this is a sign that president Bush has squandered a lot of his credibility. Evangelical Christians supported him on the war in Iraq, basically because we trusted his judgement. It turns out that his judgement was incorrect, and now that trust is gone.

The right now has a "Trust but verify" relationship with the president.