The first couple of weeks of the Big Ten season have done nothing to make me doubt my earlier assertion that the Big Ten is the best conference in college football. It really seems that, with the exceptions of Indiana and Illinois, any team can beat any other team, and what will determine a team's success in conference is its ability to finish games. Penn State has been able to finish games, and they're 3-0 in conference because of it. Michigan, on the other hand, hasn't, and they're 1-2 in conference. Right now, the conference is wide open and as many as seven or eight teams could conceivably win it.
Update: Looks like we can include Wisconsin on teams who can finish and put Michigan State under teams who can't.
Update II: I guess I picked the wrong day to say Penn State could finish games and Michigan couldn't.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Who Do You Love?
While I'm not currently supporting Miers directly, I'm not yet opposing her either. I simply do not know enough about her to take a well-informed position as to what position to take on whether or not she should be confirmed. It is true that there are others who I would rather have seen nominated, but that does not seem to me sufficient reason to oppose her now that she has been nominated. Could she turn out to be a great justice (what ever your standard for that is)? Sure. Could she be horrible? Quite possibly. Could she simply be mediocre? I don't see why not. All I can say for sure is that the President knows her and trusts her seemingly implicitly. Unfortunately, this doesn't shed any light on what sort of justice she would turn out to be if confirmed.
For what it's worth, this reminds me a lot of Bush selecting Dick Cheney to be his running mate back in 2000. Cheney, you'll recall, was brought in by the Bush campaign to help vet possible Vice Presidential candidates. When it came time for him to choose his running mate, Bush had come to trust Cheney more than any of the people regarded as serious candidates for the position and so picked him as his running mate. Miers played a similar role in the Bush White House in regard to potential judicial nominations, and whenthe time came to pick a replacement for Justice O'Connor, Bush had come to trust Miers more than any of the other candidates and so decided to nominate her. Was he right to do this? Damned if I know. Still, my position right now is to give Bush the benefit of the doubt and support the nomination, albeit very tentatively, until I see a clear reason to do otherwise.
Also, at the time she was nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, Sandra day O'Connor was serving as a state judge in Arizona (I believe she was actually on the state supreme court.).
For what it's worth, this reminds me a lot of Bush selecting Dick Cheney to be his running mate back in 2000. Cheney, you'll recall, was brought in by the Bush campaign to help vet possible Vice Presidential candidates. When it came time for him to choose his running mate, Bush had come to trust Cheney more than any of the people regarded as serious candidates for the position and so picked him as his running mate. Miers played a similar role in the Bush White House in regard to potential judicial nominations, and whenthe time came to pick a replacement for Justice O'Connor, Bush had come to trust Miers more than any of the other candidates and so decided to nominate her. Was he right to do this? Damned if I know. Still, my position right now is to give Bush the benefit of the doubt and support the nomination, albeit very tentatively, until I see a clear reason to do otherwise.
Also, at the time she was nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, Sandra day O'Connor was serving as a state judge in Arizona (I believe she was actually on the state supreme court.).
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