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Originally posted by Penske_Account
To all of my liberal pals here,
You may have been right about W after all. This morning for me could be a breaking moment. Harriet Miers is certainly, on her face (npi), the worst Supreme Court nominee since Souter, whose, coincidentally, highest qualification was being a personal friend of a friend of the Bush family (i.e. Sununu), although this one apparently is a personal friend of W. While I always cringed at Bush I's comment that "Thomas was the most qualified person for the seat", this lady makes Thomas look qualified.
Either she is a strategic appointment, offered as a sacrificial lamb (for her lack of record), with the ultimate thought being the liberals can't block two in a row, and the next one will be the real deal (JRB, PO, ML or EJ) or Bush may have just fvcked us for the next 20 years.
FYI, sources say this lady donated to Gore's campaign. And Bensten's.
Like fucking father, like son.
Spanky, what the fuck?
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Who the hell is Harriet Miers?
I know she's WH counsel, and that she's a Texas buddy and all. But still. Unless this woman assasinates abortion doctors in her spare time or something, I'm completely baffled by Bush's apparent punt on this one.
ETA: A friend who happens to know a bit about this woman has passed along the following trivia:
"*she's unmarried, a career professional women who's been very successful.
* she was the President of the Dallas law firm Locke Purnell Rain Harrell (a firm that I interviewed with out of law school, but decided not to pursue) when it merged with the Houston law firm Liddell Sapp, becoming the co-Managing Partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp after the merger.
* she was a well-known litigation attorney before she started working for Governor Bush
* she's worked in the Bush White House for the last several years.
* she's said to be very loyal to Bush
* she has no judicial experience. All her career has been either in private practice or in politics.
Should be interesting."
Indeed.
