Comments on: More Poor Writing from Harriet Miers

By: The Tin Man » Miers and Commas

The Tin Man » Miers and Commas — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:16:59 +0000

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By: Outside The Beltway

Outside The Beltway — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:41:21 +0000

Miers Questionnaire, Take II

In a lengthy post early this morning, I argued that, although I still think Harriet Miers unqualified for the Supreme Court, the flap over her answers to the Senate questionnaire was “silly.”

Now that I have seen the questionnaire (in PD…

By: ed

ed — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:55:08 +0000

Hmmm.

Isn’t one of the oft-repeated positives about Miers is that she is very deliberative? That she has attention to detail and focus?

By: Levans

Levans — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:39:11 +0000

Give her credit–she exercised extreme self-control in not using “great” even once in your example.

By: Doc Rampage

Doc Rampage — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:49:59 +0000

I sometimes write a sentence like that as a joke. Do you think she meant to be funny?

By: Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:18:25 +0000

Smear with legitimate criticism?

By: Baseball Crank

Baseball Crank — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:20:10 +0000

LAW: The Writing Sample

Beldar offers up, as a sample of Harriet Miers’ persuasive writing, a letter she wrote to George W. Bush (when he was governor of Texas) urging him to veto legislation that would prevent the newly Republican-controlled courts from regulating attorneys…

By: TCO

TCO — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:59:06 +0000

I thought some parts of her response to the panel were good, but I was bothered by a few places (towards beginning) where she seemed to brush the question off with Micheal Mann type responses. It looked like she had cribbed from the excellent Roberts document (some similarities in language/logic), but not come up to his level. Becuase she is NOT OF his level.

Down with the Chimperor!