Q: What about affirmative action?
BUSH: I've had a record of bringing people from all walks of life into my administration, and my administration is better off for it. But quotas are bad for America. It's not what America is all about, which is equal opportunity and the opportunity for people to realize their potential. So to answer your question, I support affirmative access.
Q: Are you opposed to affirmative action?
BUSH: No. If affirmative action means quotas, I'm against it. If affirmative action means what I just described, then I'm for it.
Did he change his mind, or not know about Harriet Miers affection for quota's? Because the above words solidified Bush in many a Republican's eye as the man to be elected. That man was dead set against what Mz Miers has championed, and now that he knows this...if it is indeed new to him...
Off with her nomination. Now.
PS: The Texas State Bar is a branch of the government, and I was in error to presume that Harriet Miers' stance on affirmative action and quota's was nothing more than going along with what the majority was pushing for at that point in time. But even at that, this going-along with things...just because...might be the worst indictment against her suitability for a seat on the highest court.
The country desperately needs a Supreme Court chock full of constitutional scholars that will understand the document as it was written, and not be swayed to interpret something as meaning one thing one day and something else the next, and in Thomas Jefferson's own words:
"The meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure."
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