It says a lot about White House legal counsel Harriet Miers that she continued in her job as long as she did. Miers announced her resignation today, more than a year after her failed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Miers is known for being smart, loyal and hardworking — which are great qualities for a legal counsel but, as President Bush quickly learned, not enough to warrant a spot on the high court.
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The mushie letters Harriet wrote to Bush for his birthday is what gave it away: she wasn’t SCOTUS material anyway.
She also made it known she didn’t agree with Kennedy’s majority opinion in Lawrence v Texas, yet if I’m not mystaken, she contributed funds to some pro-gay legal function or candidate. it just made her look like a ‘flip flopper’.
But then again, I recently found out Rehnquist was addicted to pain killers in 81′ even though I used to carpool with his admin., assistant Mark Cannon when I commuted to DC from Falls Church.
“The FBI’s 1986 report on Rehnquist’s drug dependence was not released at the time of his confirmation, though some Democratic senators wanted it made public. But it is in Rehnquist’s now-public file, and it contains new details about his behavior during his weeklong hospital stay in December 1981. One physician whose name is blocked out told the FBI that Rehnquist expressed “bizarre ideas and outrageous thoughts. He imagined, for example, that there was a CIA plot against him.”
http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1167732122395&hub=TopStories
Wow, If the walls of our govt halls could talk….
All I know is, she looks way too much like the lady who starred in”Strangers With Candy”.
I think she looks like Holman will in 20 years or so.
Harriet Miers is too much like Condi Rice. These two women will never go against George W. Bush. You have to wonder why?
Boy am I stupid or what?
“It says a lot about White House legal counsel Harriet Miers that she continued in her job as long as she did.”
Yup, Phillip, it says that she was another Bush casuality, victim of her own stupidity in trusting in Bush.
Remember how every candidate “deserved and up or down vote” until Miers came along.
Since she wasn’t fundamentalist enough for the American Taliban, she had to just slink away in ignonmy.
But Bush stuck with her. All the way up to the point that his neo-con string pullers told him to “lose the broad” which he promptly did . . .
thank god she is gone
now for Hughes , cheney and then bush
Leave,
All we need is a doctor who is willing to testify, Bush is clinicaly incompetent. We know Cheney already is–afterall he shot his friend in the face.
And while we’re on the subject of incompetence, how come Roberts didn’t report Reqnuist when he was drugging out at the phsycho ward in his pijamas? Roberts was his law clerk at the time.
I bet Roberts was busy writing his opinions, covering for the Chief. Those opinions limited Miranda and the 4th am., (search and seazure) while the Chief kept loads of placydil, a controlled substance in his chambers.
“Boy am I stupid or what?
“Posted by: fleettwood | January 04, 2007 at 03:44 PM”
Problem is fleeting, based on your previous dumb posts, it is hard to tell if you have been trolled, or not.
The real reason Harriet Miers is stepping down:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400778.html
SD, as posted earlier, the link you provided confirms the suspicions I had when hearing of her resignation.
more …
White House visitor records closedPETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTON – The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House complex are not subject to public disclosure.
The Bush administration didn’t reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall. The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/breaking_news/16392915.htm
Ah ha! Good article, Stephen.
You should have excerpted it–it says that Bush anticipates getting a lot of subpeonas from the newly empowered Democratic Congress, and they didn’t think Miers was enough of a “wartime consigliare” (to put in terms of the Mafia, which fits this administration so well).
Sorry, Ste-V-en–don’t know why I keep putting a “PH” into it . . .
Yes, ol’ Harriet was a great enough legal mind to be on the Supreme Court, but not a great enough of one to protect Bush’s butt from the anticipated Democrat horde that will be coming after him.
Bush extends as much loyalty as he receives, don’t ya think?
Interesting that Bush’s new “bi-partisan” talk stops when it comes down to him cooperating with Congress.
On her own, Condi Rice could best any democrat, any day. Ask her a question and she’ll give you an intelligent, straight forward answer. In head-to-head debate, she’d make Clinton, Pelosi, Reed, etal, look like the hollow fools they are.
Hopefully the Condi-haters denigrate her only because she’s a strong, intelligent and conservative woman–and not because their exposing their reconstruction-era, southern democrat roots.
Conservative Republicans kept Miers off the Supreme Court, not Democrats.
Condi, like Powell, will carry Iraq like an albatross.
Roscoe, dude, set down the crack pipe and slowly back away . . .
Condilingus was the one who warned of “mushroom clouds over American cities” from Saddam Hussein’s tons and tons of weapons of mass destruction.
Strangely, in February of 2001, she gave a speech in which she said that containing Iraq was working, that he was “in a box” and had not been able to reconstitute his weapons program.
That Feb. speech is still up on the WhiteHouse website . . .
Capn – his strategy is clear: try to make us look like either racist or sexist if we don’t support her. Never mind Iraq, WMDs, Lebanon, …