Posted on 10/03/2005 4:06:25 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
Harriet Miers
Emotional nonsense is also an apt description.
Tony Snow is making sense about it.
You don't honestly believe that, do you?
Maybe and maybe not; so, why not have picked someone obviously like a Scalia....as he promised during his campaign...to get strict Constitutionalists on the bench?
Rehnquist just turned over. :(
You don't have to be a judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Good examples of appointees who weren't judges include Thomas, Blackmun, Marshall, Rehnquist, Ginsburg.... Need I go on? If that's the only thing they've got, then they are shooting blanks.
I'm waiting until at least 9 a.m. Eastern to go apoplectic.
| Who Is Harriet Miers? |
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| Posted by Former Military Chick On 10/03/2005 7:19:55 AM CDT · 4+ views ABC News ^ | Oct. 3, 2005 | ABC News 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... |
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What's the meaning of a headfake?
Then there was Lettig...or others in their league. Why a Miers?
Mine, too. He is somewhere near Kuwait. Prayers for you and your family. It hurts to see people slamming President Bush when the troops think so highly of him.
"In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met. "
And we're supposed to feel comfortable with the judgement of someone who thinks THAT???!?!
Why should we have to guess her views and positions in a seat like this? Its not like she is being nominated for the lottery commision or something?
There is too much room for a disaster hear.
Plus, why the heck did he not pick someone in their 50's?
Imagine if the Democrats nominated someone with no judicial experience and had lottery commission on th resume. The Republicans would go ballistic.
Disappointing? Dick Cheney has worked out all right, hasn't he? I think Ms. Miers will, too, and for the same reason :)
Bingo!
Wow, lots and lots of "late joiners" stirring the pot today, huh?
You're the idiot.
I read the article and all it says is the President had her as his personal counsel. Doesn't say anything about her. I sure hope we aren't getting a pig in a polk.
I don't see Harriet Miers getting picked. It would open up her tenure as Texas Lottery Commissioner to intense scrutiny and the central controversy of that period involves GTECH gaming scandals and Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.
Is that what Bush wants in the public eye as the Safavian and Abramoff scandals break?
From the Amarillo Globe News 7/29/99:
"Littwin's attorneys also have questioned whether Bush allies, in return for the Guard appointment, helped the state's lottery operator, GTECH, fend off efforts by Littwin that might have upset its lucrative contract.
An unsigned letter to a U.S. attorney in 1996 that Littwin's lawyers obtained in their case prompted questions about the Guard, The News said. The letter was sent after the three-member Lottery Commission voted unanimously to extend the GTECH contract for five years rather than seek new bids.
It alleged that GTECH was allowed to keep its contract in return for Barnes not revealing his help in getting Bush into the Guard, the newspaper said. A former top Bush aide who now lobbies for GTECH brokered the deal between the governor and Barnes, the letter said. Both the former aide and Lottery Commission Chairwoman Harriet Miers denied the accusations."
The allegations haven't been proved but making them the central focus of a second SCOTUS nomination seems unlikely.
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