Harriet hearts Georgie

This may be the first time a Supreme Court Justice has been nominated because of her crush on the president.

AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 10 - "You are the best governor ever - deserving of great respect," Harriet E. Miers wrote to George W. Bush days after his 51st birthday in July 1997. She also found him "cool," said he and his wife, Laura, were "the greatest!" and told him: "Keep up the great work. Texas is blessed."

Ms. Miers, President Bush's personal lawyer and his selection for a Supreme Court seat, emerges as an unabashed fan in more than 2,000 pages of official correspondence and personal notes made public on Monday by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in response to open-records requests.

Is there a hole for me to get sick in?

UPDATE: Via Attaturk, it gets oh so weirder.

"I appreciate your friendship and candor. Never hold back your sage advice," he wrote. "P.S. No more public scatology." Whether Bush was referring to Miers' rough-and-tumble time as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission or something else isn't clear.

At first I thought, Bush knows what that word means and uses it in correspondence? Then I realized, he's using it there because, no doubt, he had just learned what it means from Miers and thought it would be the leg slappingest funny thing to say.