Posted on 10/07/2005 2:27:14 PM PDT by DallasMike
Over the last week it has been said that Harriet Miers is an "inkblot." That's supposed to mean she has no visible horns, no discernible politics, and no paper trail; that she's a huge national mystery. But what it should really mean is that she has become a huge national Rorschach test: We look at her and can see nothing beyond our own fears and anxieties.
What we actually know about Miers is virtually negligible: We know her notable successes as a Texas attorney; we know she's a serious born-again Christian; we know she is universally hailed as loyal and discreet. And we know she has been serving the president in various personal and professional capacities for a decade. But what we don't know could easily fill the 80,000 pages of John Roberts' documents we scrutinized so carefully before his confirmation
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Enter Harriet Miers stage right. No one really knows anything about her, yet the folks on the right talk about her like she's Satan in Size 6 shoes, and the folks on the left figure that if the right hates her so much, she must obviously be Bill Brennan in Size 6 shoes. Or at least David Souter in purple suede pumps. Once the Manuel Mirandas and George Wills made up their minds that she was both a dim bulb and a Bush crony, liberals were content to accept her as the best of a truly awful field of alternatives; she must be a dim bulb if Will says so. But better a dim bulb than a charismatic original thinker.
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We don't yet fully know what sort of person Miers is, which is why I think it's pretty important to give here a chance to explain herself at the hearings.
There was a Harriet lawyerette, Who by sixty would not marry yet, She sucked up to royalty, Who did reward her loyalty, Appointing yet another suffragette!
It is really battle between conservatives who are willing to trust Bush and conservatives who do not.
Ground level. The arms are in position as if he fell backwards and they are resting on the ground. There also appears to be a shadow with the correct perspective as if it was on the ground.
Um . . . I have to ask . . . why are you posting to this now?
I just saw it.
I see you live in Destrehan . . . how you guys doing post Katrina?
Destrehan is doing fine. There wasn't much damage out here; the worst that happened was the power being off for a little more than a week. Metarie is slowly getting back on it's feet, but there are still a lot of closed stores out there.
Anyway, we'll keep ya'll in our prayers. Take care.
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