Harriet...You've Got A Lot Of 'Splainin' To Do...

Bench Memos on National Review Online

Miers Should Withdraw Now[Edward Whelan 10/26 11:17 AM]
I have tried hard to give the White House and Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt on her nomination and to withhold judgment. But I can no longer do so. The damage from this disastrous selection has gotten worse and worse every day, and there is every reason to think that it will continue to compound.

The badly muddled thinking in the speech that Miers delivered in 1993 (and that the Washington Post reported on today) is only the latest in a mounting pile of evidence that makes it implausible to hold out hope any longer that Miers will prove to be a sound judicial conservative. I don’t see how anything she says at her hearing — or anything else that realistically emerges between now and then — can offset this evidence.

It also appears highly doubtful that Miers timely made available to the White House decisionmakers all the information about her that would have been necessary to a proper vetting. Granted, she was apparently in the dark about her own candidacy for a long period of time, but by her own account she had some two weeks to provide necessary information."

Ha! I'd say that there's a lot of skeletons in this woman's closet, and SHE had to know the words she uttered so why the hell didn't she vet HERSELF? He asked, she thinks about it and tells him that, well, there WERE times I just up and ran my mouth off like an understudy to Dianne Feinstein, so gee, ya think that'll hurt?

Here's the link to the Washington Post story. This just gets more and more ridiculous as we go along.

Miers Defended Social Activism
In a 1993 speech to a Dallas women's group, Miers talked about abortion, the separation of church and state, and how the issues play out in the legal system. "The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination," she said. "And the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes sense."

Ah yes, Harriet, self-determination. Let's just make our own laws as we go along, "hey now, stuff that warrant where the sun don't shine, officer, I'm self-determining my smoking crack while'st I beat on the old lady." "You're pregnant honey? Oh goody, we can try out that new abortion clinic everyone's been talking about, and isn't it grand you can self-determinate?"

And it gets worse. Mz Harriet goes on to mention two of the most hated liberals the nation has ever seen...

"Miers, who was one of the first women to become a partner at a major Texas law firm, also showed sympathy for feminist causes, referring to the "glass ceiling" faced by professional women and urging her audience to support female candidates. She recited a list of national and state female leaders that crossed the political spectrum, including Gloria Steinem, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.)."

There ya have it, kids. She waltzes out of law school, lands a phat job, then has the gall to mention "glass ceiling"? And to throw salt upon the wound, she praises Gloria and RodHam?

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