FRUM: WHAT THE INSIDERS ARE SAYING [Andy Card wanted Miers fired?]

NRO ^ | October 10, 2005 | David Frum

[Miss Marple]

Well, here's Krauthammer, Mona Charen, and ALAN KEYES on now. Of course, they are all acting like Harriet Miers is a high school drop out.

[Howlin]

Nobody believes that crap.

[Howlin]

Alan Keyes?

Gawd, I'm glad I missed that.

[Miss Marple]

Don't alert Frum that we have that! He's a big enough wuss he would sue or something.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Happens all the time in companies, where the boss has favorites.

[Miss Marple]

Well, if you want to believe this lie by David Frum go right ahead.

I think it is patently ridiculous.

[Miss Marple]

I need to go pick up grandchildren. Back in about 3 hours. PLEASE ping me to developments! Thanks!

[GraniteStateConservative]

You don't have to believe it. Just don't act like it's the craziest thing you've ever heard, like some on this thread have suggested. This practice is, in fact, quite common--so Bush's use wouldn't be crazy at all.

[Howlin]

Dumb? Who said dumb? Bush wants to protect people like Miers and this is a way to protect her and make Card happy, too. Win. Win. It's smart, if anything.

It's good to know that is your work ethic so we'll all be sure to NEVER vote you into any position of power.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I am not a Grisham-reader, having only read the one about Evil Tobacco. But isn't he a steeped-to-the-bones liberal? And arent all his novels to one degree or another steeped in liberal fantasy about the world?

Yes, Grisham is a liberal writer, and a conservative reader would probably not want to continue reading Grisham's books even though he's a good story-teller.

[babaloo]

Get over yourself. There are plenty of places the President could have moved her IF he was unhappy with her. He would not use the Supreme Court as a dumping ground.

[Mo1]

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[cyncooper]

PING to #86, a Frum piece from July predicting none other than Harriet Miers to be nominated.

Now he's busily spreading rumors and nasty innuendo about her.

[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.

[cyncooper]

Apparently, when Frum wrote this little prediction back in the summer, he wasn't particularly outraged at the idea. What changed his mind? She is the same person she was this summer, and at that time he wasn't griping about her reading list or her lack of writing.

That is what hit me. He gave an airy wave of the hand to "some minuses" that were minor points but otherwise did not question her being on "the list".

I pinged Tony and his radio producer after I saw you come up with that idea.

[cyncooper]

I second that idea. It needs its own thread with his recent commentary then attached.

[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

[woofie]

I third the idea

[Urbane_Guerilla]

Yes, Grisham is a liberal writer, and a conservative reader would probably not want to continue reading Grisham's books even though he's a good story-teller.

I read the one about Evil Tobacco and was so turned off by the mindless liberal cant, I just wrote him off as a darling of the MSM.

If Grisham is a liberal, and his novels are anything like the Evil Tobacco novel, I wonder how any conservative could deem them to be favorites.