Comments on: Bloggers Taking a Stand on Miers

By: Multiple Mentality

Multiple Mentality — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:19:08 +0000

Finally, a post on Harriet Miers

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By: Conservative Outpost

Conservative Outpost — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:57:23 +0000

Quick Links

From around the sphere: - Blogs for Bush has new questions about Harriet Miers - Outside the Beltway has 2008 polling info...and notes their negative stance on Miers. NZ Bear has the blogger position lowdown. And, in the interest of...

By: The Urban Grind » Blog Archive » Things Not Looking Good For Harriet Miers

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:57:15 +0000

[...] Now, NZ Bear of the TTLB Ecosystem is doing a survey of how bloggers feel about the Miers nomination. (Via Outside The Beltway) So I’ll be happy to participate. Here goes: [...]

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:15:30 +0000

Well, my prediction from the previous thread is borne out. Ken is truly an expert on everything he isn't -- in this case, intelligent people.

By: ken

ken — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:13:54 +0000

"On the one hand, there is no question from private remarks and public grimaces, some reaching back to early 2001, neither Powell nor Armitage had or has much trust or respect for Rice, and they share with other senior Republican wisemen the conviction that Rumsfeld is quite literally mad, and Cheney a dangerous, vindictive monomaniac."

The above quote is from someone who knows.

Then there is the matter of Douglas Fieth, once called the 'stupidest mother f...cker alive, by Tommy Franks.

Now we have Miers and Brown, both too dumb to know when they have exceeded their level of competence.

And let's not forget Rove, Libby and the others too dumb to realize that outing a CIA officer for the sake of political retribution is off limits in America.

And you think these people are smart?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:49:38 +0000

Almost without exception, Bush's top aides are highly intelligent. Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Rove, etc. are accused of many things; lack of intellect is not among them, however. Even Miers is certainly quite bright; she's an attorney and former president of the Bar Association on one of the most populous states in the Union.

I don't dispute that he prefers people he personally trusts or that he sometimes places more weight on that than other important factors. I think he did so in this case. But, with the exception of a few Mike Browns here and there (usually in positions without day-to-day contact with the president) he's not appointing dummies.

By: ken

ken — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:38:33 +0000

That someone so utterly incompetent as Miers was chosen by Bush as his personal attorney and one of his closest confidants is no surprise. He has a history of surrounding himself with people less intellegent than himself (no easy feat) and perfectly loyal so as to never be challenged.

It is like his manhood or something is at issue with this guy.

I wonder if he can accept her pulling out. She certainly will not do it without his approval as that would humiliate Bush more than Miers.