Biblical Literacy and the Miers Disease

Jonah has a great piece on the Miers Obsession... I admit... I've got the disease. Rich has a great piece on Bible literacy.

Now, combining my disease (Miers Mental Dementia Obsessive Hysteria (Mm'Doh!)) and the Bible what do you get... a parable! Here is the story of Elisha.

In 2 Kings Chapter 6, the prophet Elisha is hanging out in the city of Dothan. Previously, Elisha had said some pretty harsh things about the King of Syria. So the king sends his troops and surrounded the city with orders to capture Elisha.

Elisha's servant wakes up and looks out over the city walls and freaks out (I would too). He wakes up Elisha fearing of his life. Elisha calms him down and says: "They that be with us are more than they that be with them."

Elisha prays that the servants eyes should be opened. When they are he looks in the hills surrounding the armies surrounding Dothan and sees that they are filled with angels and chariots of fire.

Elisha goes out the army and tells then that they are in the wrong place. The army follows Elisha, blindly, who leads them back into Syria. He makes them a feast and tells then who he is. The story ends: "So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel."

I'll let you draw your own analogy to the Miers debate. I'm not yet willing to reveal my hand.

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But the Miers Cheat Sheet has been updated again

Masugi at CI points out some of the more benighted arguments against Miers

I know this debate is heated... but this is a bit much.

This summer post by Frum is a bit bewildering (hat tip to Hugh)