And just for the record, I think Ann Coulter (who called Miers a 'complete mediocrity') needs to simmer down; from what I've read from her recently, she's starting to overheat.
Then again, a lot of people just take her words at face value...not to knock anything against her, but she's gotten real 'RARARARARARARARAR' lately.
Miers managed to head the Bar in Texas; quite an accomplishment for a lady in a then male-dominated field.
Ann uses blonde hair, long legs and crude attacks to become a media starlet. Big deal. She couldn't carry Miers's legal pad.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.
Obviously a very intelligent person who writes very well. Interesting there are no dates attached to these positions. Perhaps she is much better at telling others how things should be done than actually doing them herself.
If Ann isn't arguing, fighting or complaining about something/someone, she has nothing to say, thus no TV appearances, speaking engagements or books. It's become her job to do this. For me, she's becoming a real turn off.
I agree that Ann Coulter is over heating. There are fights that must be won, and wins that do not need fighting.
We've all heard how Souter, and O 'Conner, and Kennedy etc etc were presented as middle of the road conservative jurists. Obviously the presidents who selected them were wrong.
In this case, George Bush knows this person and has worked closely with this person. She reviewed his choices for SC. In the five or more years with her, he knows how she would have voted on the various matters before the SC and the decisions made there, because she undoubtedly gave him her opinion privately.
I like Ann Coulter, but we're all beginning to sound like the Barry Goldwaters in the 1960s where we'd "rather be right" than be president.
Let's all breathe deep and exhale slowly and give this lady a chance. To be sure the SC has some landmark cases coming up. We'll see immediately where she and Roberts stand.
nikos