Posted on 10/03/2005 5:19:55 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
Oct. 3, 2005 — Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief of staff before she was named counsel upon Alberto Gonzales' transition to attorney general.
When he was the governor of Texas, Bush once publicly introduced Miers as a "pit bull in size 6 shoes."
Born and raised in Dallas, Miers earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her law degree from Southern Methodist University. In addition to her legal career, she served one term on the Dallas City Council.
Miers, 60, broke barriers for women throughout her career. She reportedly was the first woman hired by the prestigious Dallas law firm Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, where she became a successful commercial litigator. She also became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1985 and was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association in 1992.
Miers met Bush in the 1980s, according to published reports, and she was counsel for his 1994 campaign for governor. He appointed her chair of the Texas Lottery Commission in 1995.
Miers then was president of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell and co-managing partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp before she joined the White House in 2001.
In addition, Miers was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Lawyers by the National Law Journal in 1998, and she received numerous other awards from groups including the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, the Anti-Defamation League and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers.
The president has known her personally for years, so I think he probably knows her better than anyone.
But why didn't he even give it a try?????????????
However, there are more than enough sources about him being pro-abortion.
He said so in the second debate with John Kerry in 2004.
B.S.
Had he nominated Janice Rogers Brown, everyone here would be cheering at the top of their lungs.
That's what he should have done, instead of nominating another stealth nominee.
Rove thinks he's being cute, but I'm tired of his cuteness.
Dear wagglebee,
Yeah, I pretty much agree with your post.
I'd never hold it against any politico for giving money to a US Senator from his own state, no matter the party.
But... Al Gore??
The best thing I can say about that is, it was a long time ago (although not THAT long ago).
sitetest
OMalley,
No, sadly the attacks on Bush are from legitimate right wingers, not DU ghosts. My fellow right wingers are sounding less and less reasonable every day in the past few months. Based on what I've been reading on this forum, I am getting myself mentally prepared for a divided Republican Party in 2008 which will lead to a Left Wing Radical like Hillary or someone like her sitting in the White House. Based on what I see here, a good portion of the social conservatives are ready to leave the reservation and destroy the modern Conservative movement that has saved this nation from the brink of disaster. In an effort to enforce strict ideological purity, some here are willing to destroy the movement. To create an analogy, they are willing to bleed to death rather than use a medical remedy that might leave a long term scar.
FOX just said Rhenquist wasn't a judge. Did you like him?
Pro Choice = Pro Abortion... what don't you understand about that???
Than your only alternative is to not vote for him in 2008.
"I voted for this president twice. He fooled me. I no longer support him."
I read your message twice. You didn't fool me. You're a newby troll. I no longer support you.
They're not the ones destroying it.
Ask yourself: why were social conservatives on the reservation to begin with? And did they get their part of the bargain?
No, Bush picked this person to placate Schummer, Kennedy, and Biden. How nice of him to discard the millions that sent him thousands of dollars and stand in the rain and campaign for him, and yeild to the demands of those who would destroy his Presidency. This will reverberate huge through the rank and file republican activist who have been thoroughly disregarded, nothwithstanding promises made.
I mis-typed that, if you'll keep reading. Gore was pro life when he ran for the presidency in 1988.
In short, though she may be an unknown to the outside world, she is very well known to Bush. She knows that Bush wants a new Justice in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. She will be such a Justice. Though the lib-Dems will have very little to attack her with.
This is another masterstroke (and unexpected) by Bush.
John / Billybob
Bush and Rove certainly know what is important to the base and how easy it is for Christian conservatives to sit out an election in a fit of righteous indignation. That will not be the outcome. Look at her roots. She is political in Texas and in the Dallas area - Bible belt country indeed, very heavy in Christian conservatism.
The only thing that I find troubling about this nominee is her age. But statistically women tend to outlive men.
I do find her interest in mathematics to be quite illuminating because every variable in a formula is a universal. It indicates to me that she would believe a tree falling in the forest makes a sound even if noone is around to hear it. In philosophy, I expect her to be a Realist instead of a Nominalist, Platonist instead of Aristotlean, etc. IOW, very much like Scalia and Thomas.
Your older than dirt Marple... the acrid aroma of mothballs cling to your posts.
BushBot! ;^)
I'm encouraged that Miers was influential in filling the Appeals bench with folks like Owen, Brown, etc.
BTW folks, we may have 55 Pubs in the Senate, but certainly not 55 Conservatives. And, oh yeah..."stealth" goes both ways.
The adults are finally speaking up.
Thanks for a new sig line!
Dear MarkDel,
"Based on what I see here, a good portion of the social conservatives are ready to leave the reservation and destroy the modern Conservative movement that has saved this nation from the brink of disaster."
Most social conservatives here at FR, myself included, seem willing to vote for most any Republican candidate, as long as that Republican candidate is not an outright social liberal.
I've seen social conservatives here willing to support Sen. Allen of Virginia, even though he's not especially pro-life (but he does seem to be anti-Roe). I've seen folks offer conditional support for Ms. Rice if she moves a bit to the right on the same issue.
But if the Republican Party were to entirely repudiate social conservatives by nominating someone like Mr. Giuliani, well, then, we can take a hint.
Many in the party say to us, "Well, if you don't stick with us, you'll be out in the political wilderness."
What these folks don't understand is, if someone like Mr. Giuliani is nominated, we've already been thrown out into the political wilderness. It'd be kind of humorous (though quite sad) if those who kicked us out of the party then were angry because we took our votes with us.
sitetest
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