October 05, 2005

Miers Dump

I have a load of commentary on Miers. Here it all is.

• William Dyer, A.K.A. Beldar, talked with Hugh Hewitt about Miers' Texas legal career. Managing a big law firm is impressive. I'm not sure how that experience applies to ruling on something like Kelo.
  
  

• Reginald Brown, who worked in the White House, counters George Will's column.
  
  

• Time found a few of Miers' writings. The excerpts sound like platitudes, not legal sophistication. That probably wasn't the purpose of the article. Some may jump on Miers supporting the notion [PDF] that "gay men and lesbian women should have the same civil rights has non-gay men and women." I'd be concerned if she didn't feel that way.
  
  

• The Houston Chronicle supports Miers' nomination, but doesn't offer much except for some quotes from friends that she's "very nice, and niceness gets a bum rap these days."
  
  

• Sen. Trent Lott speaking out on Miers. He said, "I guess they thought we'd all just say 'Whoopee!' but that's not the way it works around here anymore." After Bush pushed him aside as Majority Leader you know Lott was waiting for a chance to push back.