[ModelBreaker]

Now we learn that it was Card who was the strongest advocate of moving Miers out of the West Wing altogether and onto the high court - raising the question of whether the ultimate motivation for this nomination is to open the way to hiring a new Counsel by kicking a failed Counsel upstairs.

I'm one of the Miers skeptics. But this language from the article doesn't pass the smell test.

[traderrob6]

No it doesn't and Frum offers up an out and out lie....

"it is just about the only endorsement Miers has received from any conservative with an established reputation in the law."
I guess Jay Sekulow doesn't qualify, or Leo either.

[Pondman88]

seems ridiculous...Card wants Miers for the SCOTUS to get rid of her???

That just seems crazy and stupid all rolled into one. Seems to me if they wanted to get rid of her they could have easily found a nice little job elsewhere for her.

I am starting to discount everything that Frum says.

[t2buckeye]

I'm not thrilled with Miers either...I think he wasted a perfect opportunity. But Frum gets on my nerves! Just read a piece he wrote last July saying that Bush may in fact pick Miers...and that if he did, Frum wanted to be remembered as the one who said it first. He did not seem so outraged as he does now.

[woofie]

It's been reported the reason Miers was named White House Counsel in the first place was that she had proven incompetent as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. Her boss, Chief of Staff Andy Card, badly wanted to get her out of his office - but couldn't fire her because she was protected by the president and the first lady. So he promoted her instead. Now we learn that it was Card who was the strongest advocate of moving Miers out of the West Wing altogether and onto the high court - raising the question of whether the ultimate motivation for this nomination is to open the way to hiring a new Counsel by kicking a failed Counsel upstairs.

I do not believe this...it would not happen

[LucyJo]

That's exactly the same thing I thought when I read this piece.

If Card did those things, and that is indeed the reason for her nomination, Harriet Miers isn't the one lacking intelligence and judgment, or concern about the Constitution or the SCOTUS. I'm very skeptical that Card would be that asinine, and nonchalant about such an important matter.

[nitejohnboy]

Yeah, that's a lovely piece of fiction.