Or, if you prefer:
Harriet’s Hairballs Raise Eyebrows
MSNBC was mentioning the “w” word this morning (that’d be withdraw). And, Harriet Miers’ tenure as the first female president of the Texas state bar association “could provide new fodder for conservatives opposed to her nomination,” reports the WaPo (photo source). The article, “Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides,” mentions that “the types of policies pursued by the Texas bar association amount to reverse discrimination.” Not popular with conservatives!
The Los Angeles Times finds that the few questions that Miers did answer have “left many constitutional experts shaking their heads.”
At one point, Miers described her service on the Dallas City Council in 1989. When the city was sued on allegations that it violated the Voting Rights Act, she said, “the council had to be sure to comply with the proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection Clause.”
But the Supreme Court repeatedly has said the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” does not mean that city councils or state legislatures must have the same proportion of blacks, Latinos and Asians as the voting population.
“That’s a terrible answer. There is no proportional representation requirement under the equal protection clause,” said New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, a voting rights expert. “If a first-year law student wrote that and submitted it in class, I would send it back and say it was unacceptable.” (Emphasis mine.)
You know, I’m enjoying this FAR too much to step in and add my opinion about Ms. Miers. The conservatives and legal scholars are doing quite well on their own!
And now increasingly desperate conservatives — dizzyingly picking daisy petals (“I love the president, I love him not, I love him despite his jaw-jerking, I love the numbskull not”) — are left telling PlanetOut that they don’t mind that, in 1987, Miers’ helped out the Dallas chapter of Girls, Inc., “a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians.”
Miers chaired the advisory committee of Girls Inc., a non-profit organization dating to 1864 that serves about 800,000 girls a year, many from low-income families, according to the questionnaire she submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Miers received an award for her work with the local chapter and the Dallas Bar Association. […]
Questioned about Miers’ past involvement with the group, Tim Wildmon, president of the AFA, said it was not an issue.
“That’s been so long ago,” Wildmon said in a telephone interview. “I don’t think that factors in with her current situation. It was 18 years ago, people change, organizations change.”
What kind of moral compass does Tim Wildmon have that he buckles in to Miers’ record if it suits his purposes, but is sending his association after Girls Inc.? You bastard:
The American Family Association is urging its 2.2 million members to demand that American Girl, maker of popular dolls and children’s books, stop its support for Girls Inc. Proceeds from the sale of American Girl wristbands are helping support educational and empowerment programs of Girls, Inc.
The AFA and the Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based anti-abortion group, are urging their supporters to contact American Girl and express opposition to its contributions to Girls Inc.
In the advocacy section on its Web page, Girls Inc. backs Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, favors a girl’s right to have access to contraceptives and pledges support for girls dealing with questions about sexual orientation.(PlanetOut
Harriet’s work with this group makes me like her more. If only she’d stuck with it beyond 1987. She’s unqualified as a Supreme Court justice — that’s clear.
But she has done some decent things with her life, and that’s to be congratulated.
(She does seem to have a thing about her hair though.)
“It was 18 years ago. People Change…..” But I thought Bush Promised the country and especially the Dobsonites that Miers “WOULD NOT CHANGE”. Can you imagine even knowing someone who would not change, ever in their life?
that was exactly my first thought also. And yeah the idea that someone would never ever change their mind on anything is pretty scary isn’t it..no wonder bush doesn’t think he has to ever read a book or learn anything new..he already knows what he knows-don’t confuse him with new ideas/facts and all that subversive crap. Books, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing…sung to the tune of War, what is it good for…or whatever the name of that song is.
If he believes people don’t change then he should clean his own house of all the corrupt liars like Libby, Rove, Cheney, himself..not to mention “If people don’t change” like he says what good is letting people out of Jail ever, what good is a 12 step program, his sobriety. Didn’t he change after living life in the fast lane with his binge drinking and drugs? If people don’t change and he prefers people that don’t change…Newt G should never be allowed to get near the Bush Party. They are all such fucking losers it is like the worst nightmare in the world that these criminals are running our country.
All you Catholics out there who oppose Miers can now breathe easier:
Remember this when the hearings are on – if she doesn’t get the boot before then. I’m sure some Bush butt-kissers will try to throw in her Catholicness(?), Catholicity(?) as proof of her religiosity.
Re that new church she and her buddies started – different worship styles? I’m scared to ask…
It has no bearing on Harriet Miers fitness or unfitness for the Supreme Court. I can’t help it. The picture keeps cracking me up! Who’s in charge of these appearances and photo ops? Fire them! Bwahahahaha! Someone is into serious inappropriateness.
I’m going to be nasty and catty, and I do so knowing how difficult it has been for women to advance in professions dominated by men–been there, done that, et cetera.
But, dear god in heaven, for an administration that lives–and now it seems may die–by images shown to the public, how on god’s green earth did they let that woman go out in public without doing something about her appearance and her clothing? She looks like a Glamour Don’t!
Well maybe Condi could give her some hair tips, right? I think when bush was babbling about Harriet never ever changing her mind he was confused and was thinking about Condi never ever changing her hairstyle…hard for him to keep all his women groupies straight(and no pun intended there either).