that brings Georgie's Nat'l Guard record into the discussion also brings a smile to my face.

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Man.  The hits just keep on coming.  This all sounds so Abramoff.  So Delay.  No offense to any Texans, but what the fuck is going on in that state.  They are so lucky that the independent counsel law died.  Clinton couldn't have survived ten minutes with George's fucking past.

Please, God.  Though I doubt your existence, I pray, that there will be a Democratic congress that can investigate this corrupt bastard, and bring him to justice in '06.

"Have you no sense of decency, sir. At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" -- Boston Attorney Joseph Welch, taking down Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

So, Bush would have much to thank Miers for, hence the nomination.  (or at least part to the reason behind it)  

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

I think that both Bush's appointees are better than the inept Clarence [Toady] Thomas. My hope is that once these two, Roberts & Miers, are in the Supreme Court, they will be concerned with posterity, that is, how history will view their decisions. Once they are in the Supreme Court, they will be thinking more about their personal reputations than the favors they owe the party. But then, I know I am being idealistic here.

To thine own self be true. W.S.

Here's an interesting posting from packing.org (it's a pro-gun blog):

"Note that Miers served as chair of the Texas Lottery Commission for five years. The TLC is one of the most corrupt agencies in Texas government. That she chaired it for five years is, by itself, a wake-up call to the nature of Miers' character. I recently had a long conversation with a man who served for several years as a high-ranking LEO at the TLC during her tenure there (yes, they have their own law enforcement agency), and although he is a strong conservative, who served under a Republican administration, he had nothing good to say about the way that commission was and is run.

When Miers was named to succeed Alberto Gonzales as counsel to George W. Bush, it was noted in several of the news accounts that she was a close, personal adviser of his. In fact, she has been one of the few female members of his staff who goes with him on his brush-clearing expeditions at the Crawford ranch. It is no crime to be able to form strong, personal relationships with your boss, but this example underscores a legacy of kissing-up that spans decades. Sorry, but we don't need a kiss-up on the Supreme Court.

We know absolutely nothing about her views on jurisprudence, the U.S. Constitution, etc. In my opinion, we don't need to know any of that; we know enough already to know she isn't the right person to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court."

The right continues to get louder about Harriet.

Can we tie Tom DeLay to this? Cuz that would be fun.

Something is very odd with this woman!  Never married and involved in church......fine, perhaps gay and I had a gay friend who "dated" the same guy for a long time for appearances.  She does things though alien to my species and I don't pretend to understand gay women.  If she is straight though her entire life as I understand it right this minute from what I have read has been in service to someone other than herself careerwise.  Has she been a longtime love of someone who was married and insisted on staying that way.  She is very passionate about her work, but she doesn't really seem to have any "work" that is hers.  That is very very strange for a passionately at work well educated woman.  I'm not seeing something here that is here!

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For this comment :: from BooMan Tribune   - 6 hours ago -

• Harriet Miers
  
• Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell
  
• $6 billion in overcharges
  
• Lt. Governor Ben Barnes
  
• Texas Lottery Commission investigation
  
• Nomination for SCOTUS

Has this ever been seen before, an advisor to the President and Texas Governor for eleven years, nominated to the Supreme Court.  Expect a 5-4 decision in SC, Harriet vote determines presidency in favor of Jeb in Election 2008?

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Harriet Miers, 60 (bio)
White House Counsel 2005

$ 10,500  Republican
$  3,000  Democrat
$  1,270  Special interest
$ 14,770  Total

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Miers Headed Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors

In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn't a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That's right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."

The details of the case are both nauseating and highly troubling, considering President Bush is considering putting Miers at the top of America's legal system. Under Miers' leadership, the firm represented the head of a "foreign currency trading company [that] was allegedly a Ponzi scheme." The law firm admitted that it "knew in March 1998 that $8 million in [the company's] losses hadn't been reported to investors" but didn't tell regulators.

This wasn't an isolated incident, either. The Austin American-Statesman reported in 2001 that Miers' law firm was forced to pay another $8 million for a similar scheme to defraud investors. The suit, which dealt with actions the firm took under Miers in the late 1990s, was again quite troubling. As the 9/20/00 Texas Lawyer reported, Miers' firm helped a now-convicted con man "defraud investors and allowed the firm's [bank] account to be used as a 'conduit.'" The suit said "money from investors that went into the firm's trust account was deposited into [the con man's] bank accounts and was used to pay for his 'expensive toys.'"

If you think Miers wasn't involved in any of this - think again. Miers wasn't just any old lawyer at the firm. She was the Managing Partner - the big cheese. True, she could claim she had no idea this was going on. But that would be as laughable/pathetic/transparent as the Enron executives who made the same ones after they ripped off investors.

I wrote earlier today that Democrats must focus on the fact that Miers' defining career experience up until her nomination was being a Bush crony. These new details about her career only enhance that case, in that it shows she is just like the other corrupt corporate cronies like Enron's Ken ("Kenny Boy") Lay that Bush has surrounded himself with over the years. There is no room on the Supreme Court for people like Miers who are clearly entirely compromised by partisan/corporate loyalties - loyalties that might make her an attractive candidate to the a corrupt elitists who run today's Republican Party, but a danger to the interests of ordinary Americans.

David Sirota, who hypes everything, but has some serious information here.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

Not sure where to put this so here it goes, just listened to Andrea Mitchell on Hardball and she said that Miers was brought in by Bush to help with the National Guard mess, and that interestingly ties in with George Barns(sp), and now I am wondering what she had to do with the infamous letter in Rathergate.  Far fetched?

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Just listened to the White House communications officer, (the absurd Nicole Devenish,) spinning the most idiotic drivel in praise of Miers, Bush and the regime in general.

I think Devenish might be Ken Mehlman in drag; she's that pathetic.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

Supreme Court nominee Miers calls security after explaining to a disgruntled lottery for the 97th time that you have to match ALL the numbers, not just the yellow ball, to win the 56 million dollar prize.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

Two things:

1. Is it possible that Bush doesn't realize the extent of Harriet's nefarious record? Bubble Boy isn't given to deep examination of his nominees. And this one was rushed out, helter-skelter I think, to take attention away from DeLay and possible Plame GJ issues.

2. Another picture of Dim Son with his head canted over to the side, mouth slightly open, looking as if he's drooling and totally zoned out. I wonder if there's something wrong with his vision and possibly basic motor coordination as well as all the other malfunctions attributed to him.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. -- Oscar Levant