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PERSONAL notes released this week between George W. Bush and his choice for the US Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, have angered conservatives who accuse the President of cronyism. The notes reveal the deep friendship between the two and praise verging on the fawning from Ms Miers, who has never been far from Mr Bush's side since becoming his personal lawyer in the mid-90s. The Texas state library has released more than 2000 documents detailing correspondence between Ms Miers and Mr Bush when he was governor of Texas.

Well now, ain't that sweet. Adoring loving praise for the person closest to you in the world leads to being called out for your successes achieved through the adoring loving praise. How could such a horrible thing happen? How dare we as a society and culture allow meritorious credit to be given to those who demonstrate these syncophantic interpersonal skill achievements? Where is the shame?

And where is the shame for those conservative critics who accuse their hero of cronyism? It is only cronyism because the specific people they had chosen from a pool of committed fawners, were not the cronies that were chosen. We accuse you of cronyism because you didn't pick our crony?? Is the irony of this so completely lost on the MSM that they gloss right over it?? I think not. I do think that the citizens of the US for the most part no longer have the capacity to distinguish irony from reality--again a huge shout out thanks to Seinfeld for that one. And that Miers is nothing so much more than a crony is endemic to the realities that this nation has found for itself. Do we not train our children to exhibit the best forms of cronyism when picking teams for games/sports? Do we not fawningly approve the celebrity status of the media who fawn over other celebrities picking and choosing their favorites from lists provided by their own crony publicists? How can we possibly be surprised and upset by this appointment; it exhibits the very best hallmarks of all that is celebrated and honored in the MSM and US culture. We need to feel our own shame in this as well.