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Posted on 10/20/2005 8:40:00 PM PDT by nitejohnboy
Opinion Journal story embargoed til 12:00m.
Hmmm -- rolling on the floor licking my precious bottle of Ovaltine? Just a wild guess, I'm not good at these.
IOW, it's nothing. This story has been rattling around for three weeks. It has gotten NO traction.
But what percentage of those opposed to Miers are conservatives who wanted an identifiable conservative?
Nope.
The big news is that she got a B+ on her Constitutional Law course last week.
I noticed afterward that there was a second story also, not that it had any huge bombshells either. It's more like they want to fight he Bush National Guards story over again, see last paragraph of excerpt below.
Lotto Trouble
The Miers nomination pits a Swift Boat author against a Bush National Guard detractor--in reverse.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007431
EXCERPT:
"The New York Sun has reported that Lawrence Littwin, a former executive director of the Lottery Commission, is eager to testify should the Senate subpoena him. Mr. Littwin claims that in 1997 Ms. Miers fired him after five months on the job because she was protecting GTECH, the controversial Rhode Island firm managing the lottery. GTECH had been mired in controversy for years, and in 1996 David Smith, its national sales director, was convicted in New Jersey in a kickback scheme involving a lobbyist.
Mr. Littwin has alleged that aides to then-Gov. Bush were worried that should GTECH lose its lottery contract, its top lobbyist, Mr. Barnes, would discuss efforts he claimed to have made to push a young George W. Bush to the top of the coveted waiting list for a pilot's slot in the Texas Air National Guard. (Mr. Barnes went public with those claims last year in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes.") Lottery Commission officials, including Ms. Miers, never detailed the reasons for the Littwin firing. Last week, when the Houston Chronicle asked about it, the White House replied, "Harriet Miers has never commented and will not now on what was a personnel matter."
After his firing, Mr. Littwin sued GTECH, claiming it had helped him lose his job. He focused much of his discovery efforts on Mr. Barnes, who had two lucrative contracts with GTECH that brought him $3 million a year. In 1997, when GTECH let Mr. Barnes go amid the growing lottery scandal, he received a $23 million severance package. As part of the Littwin lawsuit, Mr. Barnes gave a deposition in 1999 in which he first told his story that Houston businessman Sidney Adger, a Bush family friend who died in 1996, had approached him to secure a National Guard slot for Mr. Bush. "
She was seen riding in a red Ford with Janet Reno on lovers lane
Doesn't matter. There's nothing to it. If there had been, it would have been used against Bush in 2000.
It was never mentioned.
If anything Fund says is true about this, GWB is done.
You're really on a roll, T. I can see you relish these threads.
Barnes was paid 3 million per year to keep the company who ran the lottery under contract - no competitive bidding.
Barnes is fired from the lottery by Miers - a 23 million dollar severance package!
If any of it were true, it would have surfaced in the 2000 campaign.
It didn't.
What are you talking about? The Catholic Church is a Christian Church.
Fund is making a good point - Miers isn't worth it, she is not worth the possibility of dregging all this stuff up from Texas and the whole air national stuff.
still, if Miers goes down, I still think this is a ploy for Bush to get his #1 choice in there - Gonzales.
I'm outta here too. Sweet dreams, DBR.
Howard Sprague's mother?
All smoke and mirrors. These "true conservatives" are really grasping at straws in their hatred of Ms. Miers.
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