"There are 1,084,504 lawyers in the U.S. What distinguishes Harriet Miers from any of them other than her connection with the president? To have selected her, when conservative jurisprudence has J. Harvie Wilkinson, Michael Luttig, Michael McConnell and at least a dozen others on a bench deeper than that of the New York Yankees, is scandalous." -Charles Krauthammer
That says it for me.
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She has 'twice', not just once, been voted among the Top 100 most influential lawyers in the U.S (both times before coming to the White House and she was certainly not a household name). How many of those 1,000,000+ lawyers can say that ? I would say that pares that list down considerably.
Krauthammer, though generally providing some good analysis, has always been a little bit of a snob.
I think judging her before she has had a chance at presenting her case in a confirmation hearing is pathetic.
Does she just look unqualified?
Have you been a foreman on a Texas Grand Jury lately?
100/1,000,000 = 1/10,000 = 0.0001 = 0.01 percent
In the top 0.01% of attorneys nationwide, not once but twice!
I wonder if only 10% of those who made the top 100 attorneys list nationwide make a second time.
If so, then we have her in the top 0.001 % of attorneys nationwide. For those of you from Rio Linde that's one one-thousandth of one percent - a pretty small grouping!
And let's not forget, Chief Justice Roberts never made it to "White House Counsel", he stopped at the lowly position of 'assistant WHC'. Yep, that's right - change the timelines by a few years and Roberts would have been a working below/for Ms. Miers. And it was there he did some of his so called 'best work.'
To see how I really feel about Ms. Miers, go to Ms. Miers Goes to Washington or see what Varifrank had to say about public squealing and hysterical carrying on
BTW - I really liked the image of her clearing brush with W. They could have been talking about a few Aunts of mine.
RileyD, nwJ - "Only the humble are sane."