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Don't misunderestimate Miers
October 4th, 2005

President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of David Souter. The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court shows that he has learned his lessons well. Regrettably, a large contingent of conservative commentators does not yet grasp the strategy and tactics at work in this excellent nomination.

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Rather than extend any benefit of the doubt to the President’s White House lawyer and counselor, some take her lack of a paper trail and a history of vocal judicial conservatism as a sign that she may be an incipient Souter. They implicitly believe that the President is not adhering to his promise of nominating Justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. The obvious differences between Souter, a man personally unknown to Bush 41, and Miers, a woman who has known Bush 43 for decades, and who has served as his close daily advisor for years, are so striking as to make this level of distrust rather startling. Having seen the Souter debacle unfold before his very eyes, the President is the last man on earth to recapitulate it.
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srmorton · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

What I was thinking as I was driving in to work today listening to Laura
pontificate about President Bush not being a constitutional scholar is that
he must have needed assistance in finding judges that were. Harriet Miers
has presumably been one of his closest advsiors as he was making the
outstanding Ciruit Court nominations that he has been making for the
past five years. He could not have known about all of these people
unless someone brought them to his attention. Obviously, Harriet Meirs
knows what kind of judges GWB promised to appoint and those that he
eventually did appoint. That is a big point in her favor IMO.
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