A Self-Inflicted Wound (re: Miers - Newsweek article)

[MindLikeAParachute]

Dutiful she is, but Supreme Court material she is not. Before taking over as White House counsel earlier this year, she was staff secretary, a position of so little consequence it’s not even depicted on “The West Wing,” the fictional TV drama about White House life. Miers put in long hours and was the last person to put paper on the president’s desk, but she wasn’t mulling over constitutional issues.
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Conservatives gagged and liberals gasped when Bush said with a straight face in the Rose Garden that Miers was the most qualified person he could find. More evidence they’re drinking Kool-Aid in the White House: David Frum, a former White House speechwriter, reported on his blog that Miers once told him that Bush was “the most brilliant man she’d ever met.” What will happen when she has a conversation with Justice Antonin Scalia? Will her head explode?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9622025/site/newsweek/

Ha.
Good read :)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Or, we may equally ask, will Scalia's head explode?

[aquart]

4. If Scalia is tasting bitter gall.......it's not all bad.

First George appoints that young new guy to be CHIEF Justice, and now Miers? Lotta gratitude for all Scalia did for him. Lotta gratitude.

[Erika]

2. Maybe she and Thomas can issue a written cognitive thought

He's never been able to do it himself. Maybe two tokens can come up with a scholarly cognitive thought? Thomas can't seem to by himself.

[MADem]

3. That first paragraph reads like the opening to a creepy horror movie

...which sums up the administration fairly succinctly:

Oct. 7, 2005 - A good makeup artist could have erased those dark circles under Harriet Miers’s eyes as she appeared before the cameras to accept President Bush’s nomination to the Supreme Court last Monday. Described by White House aides as Bush’s “work wife,” she spent so many hours toiling in the West Wing that colleagues once thought her red Mercedes had been abandoned in the parking lot.

[senseandsensibility]

13. "work wife?"

Gag.:puke: These people are truly insane.

[Contrary1]

5. They used the "Kool-Aid" word...

That alone is worth the read.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. I liked Bill Maher's take on this

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/mahercronybaloney.wmv

[OneBlueSky]

7. maybe she just hasn't met many men? . . . n/t

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[Neil Lisst]

8. Harriet Beecher Stowe Miers

She's going to be another Uncle Thomasina for the right, another Clarence Long Dong Silver Thomas.


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[Kahuna]

9. Miers will be like Thomas. Knowing she is unqualified she will

vote the way Scalia votes. That spells trouble for us all. I'd rather have a thinking right wing snake than somebody who will just go along with whatever Scalia does.

[Neil Lisst]

10. I agree with you, kahuna

Yep, that's how I have her pegged. She's been Bush's personal colostomy bag, for God's sake!


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[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Christian leader says Miers values loyalty above all

Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention. He said his fellow Texans Bush and Miers value loyalty and courage above all, adding: "If she were to rule in ways that are contrary to the way the president would want her to rule, it would be a deep personal betrayal."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601713.html

[mandomom]

12. Fear the Miers Law Clerk

Just imagine the sway/power that will be held by the clerk who wins the position of working for Miers. It could be a job similar to simply pouring data through a funnel into Miers' "opinions". Which SCOTUS justice will influence Miers' clerk? That's the question when wondering how Miers' will perform. Dance, monkey, dance. And lose the Boy Georg eyeliner.