Posted on 10/20/2005 6:22:26 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
Harriet Miers -- whose courtesy calls with senators in their Capitol Hill offices have been more chaotic than courteous -- has finished the tour, the White House has told congressional aides. Miss Miers will spend the next two weeks cramming for her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republican Senate staffers working on the nomination told The Washington Times yesterday. The meetings have been fraught with misunderstandings and disagreements, giving ammunition to detractors, both liberal and conservative, that Miss Miers is in over her head. "No one is walking out of these meetings thinking they've just met with a star," a Republican Judiciary staffer said yesterday. Depending on how the confirmation hearings go next month, the White House may schedule more meetings after the hearings have concluded. "This is highly unusual," said one Republican staffer, who noted that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had private meetings with senators in the weeks preceding his confirmation hearings. By the time Justice Roberts took the oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he had met with more than half of the 100 members of the Senate. Miss Miers has met with only about 25 senators. Staffers said she will attend two previously scheduled meetings today, but that will be all.
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Stick a fork!
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You go girl!
Put it in the face of haughty critics on all sides.
For the umpteenth time, we don't need any more "stars" on the court. We need someone who can READ, who can apply common sense to the common sense law we have called the Constitution. If John Marshall could do it without ever even judged before, I think Miers can manage.
You know what's just as disconcerting as being told she was the "best person for the job" on the supreme court?
That she was apparently the 'best person' for the job of white house counsel as well.
Sigh.
But...but...but...she went to school with Laura Bush! And, did I mention that she's a woman?
Just what we need, an OJT justice.
Those damn elitest, sexist conservatives!
That she was apparently the 'best person' for the job of white house counsel as well.
Perhaps you can point to specific examples of where Miers advised the White House wrongly as Counsel.
You cretins are now down into personal attacks, which is why, if you'll notice, you're on here butt-pattin' each other.
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"You cretins are now down into personal attacks,"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH
I would like to know the name of the perp that snuck her name onto the list. Surely was not a constitutional scholar. More like a Bush drone.
All I get from this article are a lot of "anonymous" opinions.
I'll wait to hear what she has to say. If she's as "lackluster" as these "anonymous" sources say, it will show up in the hearings.
Two hundred years of Constitutional Amendments, Supreme Court Decisions and Federal Statutes have made the work of the Supreme Court of today something John Marshall would not recognize.
Harriet Miers' testimony in Williams v. Dallas (1989) (after being asked if she's read certain books relating to minority voting and municipal goverment):
"I probably can shorten this line of questioning... if you just asked me when's the last time I read a whole book."
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