{"id":4875,"date":"2005-10-14T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:12:06","slug":"poor_harriet_mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"Poor Harriet Miers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this lady being clobbered, or what? And by her own side! It seems a certain type of ideological conservative would rather get in a titanic political battle over ideas and agendas &#8211; even if it means losing &#8211; then simply picking up another chip on the table. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times had an interesting op ed today by Michael Scully, a former Presidential speechwriter, in which he skewers certain conservative critics of Miers. The article is here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/14\/opinion\/14scully.html?ei=5090&amp;en=0fed1c15978f3f81&amp;ex=1286942400&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">The Harriet Miers I Know &#8211; New York Times<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;The link should be free for the next seven days, although the Times may ask you to register. It costs nothing to register. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see an non-judge practicing attorney named to the Supreme Court &#8211; it would give Court members another perspective. Here&#8217;s hoping Miers comes up aces in her Senate Judicial Committee hearings, making Buchanan, Coulter, Kristol, etc, look as petty as they are. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this lady being clobbered, or what? And by her own side! It seems a certain type of ideological conservative would rather get in a titanic political battle over ideas and agendas &#8211; even if it means losing &#8211; then simply picking up another chip on the table. The New York Times had an interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9906,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}