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Forget actually having a record of rulings or, like Roberts, claiming that everything you ever wrote in your entire life was the opinion of your client / superiors rather than yourself, Miers has taken the threshold of stealth nominees to an entirely new level. She didn't even answer the questions on the private questionnaire distributed to her by the Senate judiciary committee:

This is pretty absurd. It shows, once again, that the White House is far more willing to tell people like Dobson the truth about Miers than they are willing to tell the public. It also raises further questions about Miers competence: she can't even properly complete a questionnaire for the most important job in her life? It also shows the hole that Democrats dug themselves into when they allowed half of their caucus to vote for a stealth nominee like Roberts. In light of that vote, the Miers nomination and her refusal can almost be seen as understandable. After all, if Democrats were not willing to stand up to the White House's refusal to hand over important Solicitor's General documents involving Roberts, not to mention all of the other stealth aspects of his nomination listed above, one could only expect that the Bush administration would respond by releasing even less information about their next nominee.

And would it kill Senator Leahy to say he was insulted by this, when a reporter made it easy for him to give such a line? From the press conference on the matter:

You are playing far too nice Senator. The White House is giving you the middle finger on nominees, as they make it perfectly clear that they don't think they have to tell you anything about who they want on the court. If you want more responsiveness on Miers and future nominees, then you need to take a harsher stance against stealth than simply saying you are "unsatisfied."