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They're going fast!
Posted on 10/03/2005 5:19:55 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
Oct. 3, 2005 — Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief of staff before she was named counsel upon Alberto Gonzales' transition to attorney general.
When he was the governor of Texas, Bush once publicly introduced Miers as a "pit bull in size 6 shoes."
Born and raised in Dallas, Miers earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her law degree from Southern Methodist University. In addition to her legal career, she served one term on the Dallas City Council.
Miers, 60, broke barriers for women throughout her career. She reportedly was the first woman hired by the prestigious Dallas law firm Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, where she became a successful commercial litigator. She also became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1985 and was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association in 1992.
Miers met Bush in the 1980s, according to published reports, and she was counsel for his 1994 campaign for governor. He appointed her chair of the Texas Lottery Commission in 1995.
Miers then was president of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell and co-managing partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp before she joined the White House in 2001.
In addition, Miers was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Lawyers by the National Law Journal in 1998, and she received numerous other awards from groups including the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, the Anti-Defamation League and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers.
20-30 years?
They want someone who's clearly conservative. But Bush can't appoint someone like that. He needs someone who's an enigma to the average guy, but who's not an enigma to him.
On its face, the appointment meets that criteria. Of course, it doesn't mean that we're going to get a conservative. It just means that Bush knows whether she's a conservative or a liberal. He knows what he's doing, even if we don't.
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Ann Coulter is probably going to write another book over this nominee....
A very, very sensible post. While I think we need to give Bush some benefit of the doubt, this is a somewhat troubling nomination to be sure.
That will drive the Libs/Gays nuts.
Getting straight through Christ.
Thank you for your response. With the reaction to people's posts here it makes it difficult to ask. Attitudes toward posters by those folks that love to spend their time researching could benefit FreeRepublic if they thought of themselves as teachers. Too often they attack others for saying something they think is stupid or something that may not necessarily meet what they believe is conservative. I am a Republican. I don't like the RINO name-calling nor do I like the DU references and all this Zot stuff. As a Republican and even if WE do not agree on all points my vote is ALSO NEEDED. I come here to read, to digest that information the best I can (which sometimes is via debate/posting) and form my opinion. Conservative means different things to different people and I don't think that is respected here. We can have honest disagreements and still be conservative. In my opinion, the name calling and belittling of posters only brings down FreeRepublic. If you want to be an influence why not try educating or ignoring a poster if you can't respond in a decent manner. Otherwise maybe there should be a backroom for those experts so they don't have to deal with us uneducated idiots. Your influence just might convince others to switch their thinking.
That's an ugly post, Johnny7, and certainly not warranted and beneath you.
I often hear Rush talk about how liberals are all about feelings. Seems like I am seeing a whole lot of "feelings" here on these Supreme Court threads.
Someone pointed out that she's 60, never been married, and on the board for Exodus Ministries....
"I find it interesting that her undergraduate degree was in mathematics. This indicates someone who is trained in logic."
Tell that to Bill Gates(a big liberal)
I agree completely, TM. I don't regard disagreement or differences of opinion as a bad thing.
"Someone pointed out that she's 60, never been married, and on the board for Exodus Ministries...."
This Exodus Ministries is not the one that reclaims gays. It's one that helps ex-convicts get straightened out. Different animal altogether.
I suspect that the torrent of "conservative" malcontents flooding this thread are also going to be surprised at the performance of Judge Miers. I want to see them eat crow and admit that they were wrong in their knee jerk remarks.
Bill Gates is a college drop-out who is very good at hiring people and marketing his software. He does not have a degree in mathematics.
"Bush said she is a strict constructionist... you say different. Why are you correct and the President wrong?"
Isn't this the same president that put his friend's college buddy in charge of FEMA and stacked it full of inexperienced croneies?
With complete GOP controll of congress I want clear cut conservatives, not a damned shell game.
Because other people have multiple beliefs they will not compromise does not necessarly make them wrong to express those beliefs.
Obviously not.
The point of noting her mathmatical background is that she is trained in STRICT REASONING: mathmatical theories and proofs have absolutely no place for biased preferances, agendas, and twisting of existing rules. Social sciences are fine, but are not subject to the same inherent rigor; one can choose a social agenda and manipulate studies & theories to fit (may be proven wrong eventually, but agendas can prove quite durable). In math, one might say 2+2=5 or pi=4, but is plainly wrong and dropped by the wayside. A mathematician is used to creating and accepting proven conclusions which are contrary to what one "wants" to see; in a judge, this amounts to "strict constitutionalist".
It's not MY choice; it's you people's CHOICE to be so damn contrary about every single thing the president does.
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