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The following are prepared excerpts from a speech to be given by Senator Kerry at Georgetown University today.

Bush’s decision to name Harriet Miers, his White House counsel and longtime Texas pal, to the Supreme Court seat now held by retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor should raise Constitutional concerns.

Miers, who nobody really knows her stance on certain issues, has left very few clues in her previous public posts, which include service on the Dallas city council and as Bush’s lottery commissioner when he was governor of Texas.

But her nomination to the Supreme Court comes as no surprised to many of us Texans who are Bush watchers since Bush had already established this type of precedents when – as governor in 1998 – he appointed Alberto Gonzales to the Texas Supreme Court.

However, two weeks ago, GW Bush did open Pandora’s Box when he told reporters his reasoning for nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Which, now, the White House is actively playing down.

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Part of an article in a recent issue of TIME reminded me of a chilling but telling quote from a 2004 Ron Suskind article in The New York Times Magazine.

W goes off the deep end: I think W may be going off the deep end; if not now then soon.  A...