Let it go.
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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.
i will ditto that thought.
the President took the pro-life base down the garden path so to speak...does he know that social conservatism is his last justificatin in order for him to be called a conservative..foreign policy and economy, he is not one
Some folks want to bail based on rumors and conjecture. I'm waiting to hear some FACTS about this woman, not ruminations based on some peoples' fevered imaginations.
LOLOL.....don't know whether to laugh or cry but in the end it's really fun to watch some people get bent out of shape at EVERYTHING the President does or says.
Another DUer! How transparent!
I tend to agree but who knows Bush wants someone in the mold of Scalia and Thomas? Has he publically stated so? What has he said that makes one come to that conclusion?
Amen!!!!!
What do you know about this woman that makes you dislike this pick?
She donated money to Al Gore and Lloyd Bensten in 1988. (http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Harriet_Miers.php) She's a Bush cronie.
I would have prefered someone with a proven Conservative track record.
Bush has asked our soldiers for courage when deploying yet he shows none himself politically on the homefront.
I might be more leary of this choice if I didn't see the unappeasables out in full force. As it is, I automatically support her!
By the way, Bill Kristol just was on talking about how "she isn't a Scalia or Thomas" and "a lot of conservatives are demoralized."
I am beginning to think Kristol is a Freeper.
To hell with him.
Come on, Bill, don't spoil the mass nervous breakdown going on here with common sense. One thing you will never see on FR is a "wait and see" attitude.
Not at all. FR has gone down hill lately. It is still better than sites like DU, LP, FU, etc. but not by much.
I felt better about Miers before I learned she donated to Algore, Lloyd Bentsen, and the DNC during the 80s while she was in her mid-40s...
My [first] knee jerk reaction is that he nominated a Michael Brown to the Supreme Court.
Someone who gets the job because of who they know.
It's not just her age, she really doesn't look healthy. She is the same age as Bush and looks like she is his mother. I hoipe I'm wrong, but I don't expect her to last to 75.
Well, 60 can be good or bad, depending on what kind of a justice she is. Also, women generally live longer than men. Stevens was 55 when appointed, and he is still unfortunately ticking after a long 30 years.
Let it go.
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I don't know if she is a conservative and the unknown element bothers me. In any event, she has never been a judge. I would hope for a nominee with extensive judicial experience, preferably on one of the Circuits of the Federal Court of Appeals.
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