She Doesn’t Read Books, But She Sure Can Bowl!
Recent praise for book-avoider Harriet Miers includes this:
“You know, she’s a very gracious and funny person,” said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003. “I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific.”
In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. “She is a very good bowler,” he said. “For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins.”
And this:
Carl Cameron of Fox News tossed aside the credentials and asked [former Texas Supreme Court justices] to describe something Miers did that “led to a demonstrable outcome of a conservative judicial philosophy.” They could not.
“Well, I –I — I will answer it this way,” [John L.] Hill [Jr.] said, citing an instance in which Miers opposed mandatory pro bono work for lawyers in favor of voluntary pro bono work. Cameron pushed again, fruitlessly, for specifics. Moments later, a White House spokeswoman declared the session over, and when a couple of the judges lingered, a handler cut them off with a call of “Gotta go to lunch, Judge.”
Pssst: Justice Hill! Tell ’em what a great bowler she is!
You write this like it’s a bad thing. Have you no imagination?
Beldar (a9090e) — 10/18/2005 @ 11:45 pmYou elitist, thinking that she needs to be literate to sit on the Court.
Angry Clam (fa7fff) — 10/19/2005 @ 6:08 amAs a bowler myself, this puts her over the top for me.
tbaughman (4b527b) — 10/19/2005 @ 6:26 amI think the real question, though, is if she uses bumpers.
Angry Clam (fa7fff) — 10/19/2005 @ 6:32 amI don’t get it.
TCO (4dd7d6) — 10/19/2005 @ 7:16 amIn bowling.
Patterico (4e4b70) — 10/19/2005 @ 7:30 amI knkow bumpers. Didn’t get the first, long, post.
TCO (4dd7d6) — 10/19/2005 @ 9:51 amI keep wondering if you voted for W? Bet you did not realize that he was a baseball owner that got himself elected TX Gov. A fluke? Next that lil man run for Prez, the most powerful office in the entire world. BTW he was a former party boy and boozer. Some thought he might not be very qualified, mutters and calls people goofy names.
Question: Did you happen to vote for this bozo?
owl (c69a23) — 10/19/2005 @ 6:56 pmSay you didn’t do it twice….
I did it twice…didn’t have much choice though.
TCO (3c2924) — 10/19/2005 @ 9:36 pmGee, Owl, given a choice between Crazy Al/John “The Traitor Filth that Walks Like a Man” Kerry and Bush, there wasn’t much of an option.
Ernest Brown (645009) — 10/20/2005 @ 6:46 amTCO: go watch “The Big Lewbowski” – Miers is in the role of John Goodman’s character Walter Sobchek.
Angry Clam (fa7fff) — 10/20/2005 @ 6:49 amThat’s life. Some of us liked his way of doing business since it didn’t follow the established bad routine.
I continue not to understand this trashing of Miers and weakening of the Prez. If someone voted for Bush, I assume they trusted his judgement. The only other argument I can find valid is to claim he lied. Is this the charge?
Simple folks would like simple explanations.
owl (c6a6e0) — 10/20/2005 @ 6:50 amHere’s the simple explaination. People make mistakes. Meirs is a mistake.
Ragin' Cajun (3fa150) — 10/20/2005 @ 7:56 amCould be, but Miers is “pure Bush”. He has a pattern as to how he does business. After one day of ranting, I figured it could have been much worse. He could have sent a plumber or a demolition expert. This is one of his babies and been on his radar since he first began political life.
Look at Bush’s credentials for Prez. Thin? McCain had a record.
owl (e043f8) — 10/20/2005 @ 8:48 amok…I saw that a while ago.
TCO (4a58b3) — 10/20/2005 @ 9:18 am