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  • The Truman Show (In Choosing Miers Bush Pulled a Truman)

    10/05/2005 4:44:50 AM PDT · by RWR8189 · 36 replies · 1,106+ views
    The New Republic ^ | October 5, 2005 | William J. Stuntz
     hat kind of president picks both John Roberts and Harriet Miers? They look like the ultimate odd couple. Roberts is not a Bush crony, he has a résumé to die for, and everyone who knows him says he's unbelievably smart. Miers is more than a crony but certainly not less--Fred Barnes says no president has ever known a Supreme Court appointee as well as Bush knows Miers, and he may be right. She has the kind of résumé you expect to see in the director of a not-very-important federal agency: president of the local bar, member of the Dallas City...