Flotsam

Harriet Miers, the meticulous, detail oriented and dependable candidate for the Supreme Court has had many liens placed on property she controls in a low income part of Dallas. This is the 10th time Dallas has had to go after Miers since she assumed control in 1995 of real estate parcels her mother inherited.

The problem was brush – uncleared brush that the city had to have taken care of. A neighbor claims the property has had no regular maintenance until recently.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the bills have now all been paid, but the city has no record of the dates, amounts, who paid them or how they did it, according to Celso Martinez, a city spokesman. But questions about her reluctance to obey the law and her tardiness to pay off liens remain. It does however explain her unabashed toadying and lavish praise of Bush. The girl needs a man who can cut brush.

The Daily Curmudgeon believes that Rove and Libby will be indicted in the Valerie Plame affair. I don’t think so, but if they are, my guess is that some catastrophe will emerge, moving the proceedings from center stage and requiring the Warpresident to ask us to remain quietly and indefinitely in our homes until the “Terror” level abates. I’m stockpiling food and water.