Miers Hearing will plow up Bush/Texas lottery dirt?

Hugh Hewitt Program | John Fund

[Cboldt]

Is the story that there is dirt on Miers, or that the democrats are going to use the hearings to infer that there is?

The latter. And the mudslinging is aimed at Miers and GWB both. This is old news, just emerging.

[JCEccles]

I'm underwhelmed by Miers' qualifications. But nothing I have seen suggests to me that she is the least bit dishonorable or dishonest.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the clarification!

[Cboldt]

I knew a 5 year term as the lottery lady was trouble.

The lottery itself dropped from 1st in the nation to 4th -- not sure if the others grew and overtook, but there are some unflattering reports of "game rule changes" that reduced revenue. All very accessible stuff. Dark side had it out and pretty well reviewd by the 8th or 9th of October.

[hummingbird]

She cleaned up the Lottery. Dig all you want into a good job done.

Dog Gone, that was my impression as well. I did a Yahoo! search using Texas Lottery Draper and found a few articles to read up on...GTech was the company involved in the lottery, but I'm as interested in the dates of lottery activities as in the players. I think sinkspur said something about they would have brought it up for 2000 if President Bush was involved. I tend to agree with sinkspur.

Democrat Party right now is like a swarm of gnats...each one is just a nuisance easily squashed, but collectively they seem hellbent on knocking "us" offpoint.

It is really tiresome...anybody got a can of industrial RAID?

[hummingbird]

If the former, I don't believe it. Gore's people were all over Austin looking for anything they could find.

...and making up and hallucinating the rest!

This puppy needs to be resolved now...we need a timeline of activities and players. If its a clean timeline, our job is done. The Dems will shut up and move on to the next most ridiculous accusation. Think I'll google for a while...my new tagline.

[Txsleuth]

What was the FIRST damaging scoop?

[ekwd]

Fund has apparently gone the last yard and seems to prefer to see the Dem's in power than to see GWB have the Miers nomination succeed. I saw this same crap in 1976 and 1992. The result was Carter and Clinton. No thanks. I voted for Bush. He won. He gets to nominate who he believes would be best for the Supreme Court. So far he has nominated/appointed Charles Pickering, William Pryor, Priscilla Owen, and Janice Rogers Brown to the Circuit courts. I trust him a lot more than I trust Fund.

[AmericaUnited]

Judy Miller was about to break this story but she forget who her source was...

[hummingbird]

Here the official "Texas Lottery Commission Milestones":

http://www.txlottery.org/info/milestones.cfm

[Txsleuth]

What was Fund's first scoop?

I am listening to Jeb Babbin subbing for Hugh Hewitt right now...and he is believing this....and that it will dredge up the whole National Guard story again...and Dan Rather and Mary Mapes could be brought in...??????

[Texas Eagle]

Dirty dealing at a state run lottery? The hell you say.

[OldFriend]

For some reason Fund has been having a hissy fit over this nomination from the start.

[hummingbird]

I am listening to Jeb Babbin subbing for Hugh Hewitt right now...and he is believing this....and that it will dredge up the whole National Guard story again...and Dan Rather and Mary Mapes could be brought in...??????

I feel like Alice in Wonderland when I see something like this happening. What is wrong with these people...sigh.....

[Txsleuth]

I read some stuff about the Texas Lottery stuff...and Miers was brought in after the fact, cleaned it up....has NOTHING to do with any scandal.

[Reagan Man]

How come this story is just coming to light at this point in time? Hmmm.

[OldFriend]

There is no depth too low for the sewer dwellers.....on both sides of this issue.

[LibLieSlayer]

BOVINE EXCREMENT!!!

Anne Richards:

"If there were anything in President Bush's history that was of questionable character, I would have found it out, and used it"!

Fabrications from (supposedly) our side. Give it your best shot boys. Better that your ilk has tried and failed!!!

LLS

[Txsleuth]

You got that right. When I read a few weeks ago that Miers was in and around then Governor Bush during the Lottery thing, and that she was within 1,000 miles of the National Guard story, I KNEW this would get brought up.

If I knew it, then why didn't someone who could have foreseen this, do something about it?

[LibLieSlayer]

"Fund is reporting on what the plans of the Democrats are.Hewitt's fill-in host reported that the hearings will also get into all the old allegations about the Texas National Guard".

Good! We shall once again shine the light of truth on the lies... this time we'll take turn-coat Conservatives down with the media!

LLS