Some info on Harriet Miers

More cronyism, and another very thinly veiled attempt to get a good buddy on the SC before indictments come down on Plame.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001161.html

Ask White House counsel Harriet Miers when she first met George W. Bush, and she is less than specific. "I met him on a variety of occasions over the course of time," she replied recently, explaining their long-ago encounters in the social and power corridors of Texas. "But not in a memorable way."

Ask her what it was like to be the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association, and she invokes not gender, but the geographic rivalry that frequently underlies bar elections in the state. "It was a very vigorous campaign against a lawyer from Houston," said Miers, who is from Dallas.

Ask what motivated her to seek election to the Dallas City Council in the late 1980s, she says only: "I was asked to run." Ask why she bowed out after one term, and she is only a bit more expansive. The structure of the council had changed, she explains, converting her citywide seat into one representing one district. That did not suit her interest, so she moved on. "It was a natural progression," she said.

Miers's reticence is not to be mistaken for a lack of assertiveness or ambition. Rather, friends and associates say, it reflects her scrupulous discretion and selflessness -- the same qualities that propelled her rise through the legal ranks and into President Bush's inner circle.

Remember how Cheney was in charge of finding a VP candidate for the 2000 election and he chose himself?

"She's really obscure." CNN commentator just said this. "She has no record."

edit: When she was on the Dallas city council did she have to run as a R or D or was it a non-partisan race?

Hell, even Mark Reilly on Morning Sedition called it that way this morning before the news broke.

and figured out what was going to come down?

I never get to listen to that show. My home computer can't stream non-Mac compatible streams. :(

saying now and before he'd seen any news articles this morning. They were having a studio pool on who would be nominated. The other Mark picked Gonzales, Reilly picked Miers, and so on.

because many Texans who were dems several years ago are quite conservative and have become repugs.

I think Phil Grahm was a dem once.

http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Harriet_Miers.php

or so her campaign contributions would show.

I'm really not quite sure about her.

Don't you love how these Bushies operate :scared:

...the same qualities that propelled her rise through the legal ranks and into President Bush's inner circle...."

Hmmm...

Yes, those have long been PRIZED qualities in the Bush "inner circle"...

scrupulous discretion and selflessness...

The same qualities Karl Rove and / or Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, George Bush used when leaking Valerie Plame's name.

...scrupulous discretion and selflessness...

Excuse, me, I feel a small, patriotic tear welling up in the corner of my eye. President Bush was RIGHT, he DID bring "honor and dignity" back to the White House.

:sarcasm:

:evilgrin:

It's just more cronyism by Bushie.

But that line about the "special qualities" of the "inner circle" was like wavin' a red flag in front of a bull...I could not resist, nor did I attempt to...

:evilgrin:

:toast:

Apparently, she's donated to Democratic campaigns in the past . . . seems to have stopped in '88 though.

http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Harriet_Miers.php

Makes you wonder what happened to make her change 100% in '88

She might actually be a decent person who got sucked into Gomer Bush's "aw, shucks" vortex...who knows at this point.

I mean, seriously...every last ONE of his cronies can't be 100% pure walking evil...can they?



...err...never mind.

:evilgrin:

:grr: She will have NO record to question. Easier to avoid answering. :grr:

No paper trail. No record of her positions on abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, etc. She's an unknown quantity.

And she can clam up during the hearings.

you just can't make this shit up.

I'm sick to my stomach.

Good fucking Monday Morning.

and "scrupulous discretion" means she won't leak unless * wants her to, or until she's about to be jailed or indicted.

in other words.

of judicial experience. But what if she is a moderate? We just don't know. She could be the lesser of evils.

...you got THAT right.

* blathering about not legislating from the bench? How can we know what she'll do since she's never been a judge or even a DA or a prosecutor?

Let's see what the Bar Association has to say about her. They wnat SCOTUS nominees to be among the "best legal minds in the nation." * is saying she's devoted herself "to law and order." How the hell has she done that?

Another tidbit: She's never been married. No husband or children issues just like Condi. Makes her more of an unknown quantity.

Froma a friend of mine, some minutes before Bush's choice:

I don't see Harriet Miers getting picked. It would open up her tenure as Texas Lottery Commissioner to intense scrutiny and the central controversy of that period involves GTECH gaming scandals and Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.

Is that what Bush wants in the public eye as the Safavian and Abramoff scandals break?

From the Amarillo Globe News 7/29/99:
"Littwin's attorneys also have questioned whether Bush allies, in return for the Guard appointment, helped the state's lottery operator, GTECH, fend off efforts by Littwin that might have upset its lucrative contract.

An unsigned letter to a U.S. attorney in 1996 that Littwin's lawyers obtained in their case prompted questions about the Guard, The News said. The letter was sent after the three-member Lottery Commission voted unanimously to extend the GTECH contract for five years rather than seek new bids.

It alleged that GTECH was allowed to keep its contract in return for Barnes not revealing his help in getting Bush into the Guard, the newspaper said. A former top Bush aide who now lobbies for GTECH brokered the deal between the governor and Barnes, the letter said. Both the former aide and Lottery Commission Chairwoman Harriet Miers denied the accusations."

The allegations haven't been proved but making them the central focus of a second SCOTUS nomination seems unlikely.

Posted by joejoejoe at September 28, 2005 09:53 AM


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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495585/posts?q=1&&page=401

piece of paper that crossed his desk before Gonzalez became Attorney Genera. According to Nina Totenberg on NPR this a.m.

"She oversaw every piece of paper that crossed his desk..."hmmmmm.

is a supporter of hers?

who MIGHT be looked into, according to a news show this morning.