NYT: A Place at the Table for Miers and High-Level Friends

[kskiska]

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

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In all the conservative uproar over President Bush's choice of Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court, and in all the looks backward into Ms. Miers's career and upbringing in Texas, one thing has been lost: her current life in the Bush administration as one of a handful of powerful single women who have become friends and part of an informal network of support in Washington.

For much of the past five years, Ms. Miers, 60, has been a close friend not only of Ms. Veneman but of Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state. Schedules permitting, the three have met for what people still call girls' nights out in Washington.

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Friends say that Ms. Miers and Ms. Rice share not only brutal work schedules but also an intense devotion to Mr. Bush. Someone who knows both women said that it was "reasonable to speculate" that Ms. Rice - who remains as close a confidante of the president as she was when she worked steps from the Oval Office as national security adviser in the first term - played a role in Ms. Miers's selection.

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A favorite topic, Ms. Stock said, was stories about people desperate for invitations to White House dinners. Ms. Stock gave up no names. ("We did a pinkie swear that what goes on at the table stays at the table.") But she offered a generic version of a tale common to all administrations.

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[tanyev]

1. Bush's harem.

:puke:

[babylonsister]

2. Sounds like fun gossip. Thanks-these women

need a personal life, too. I don't think Condi made the final decision about Meiers. If she has that much power, we are in bigger trouble than we thought.

[cassiepriam]

8. Bush IS their personal life. nt

[grytpype]

3. Of COURSE Rice was involved!

What complete screwup has she not been involved in?

[MissMarple]

4. How...unfortunate.

Ladies, how could you betray your country like this? Actually, I don't want to hear it.

[Democrats_win]

5. Place at the bench for Halliburton, Texaco, Citibank, Coors & Dupont

With bush's cronies on the bench, his corporate cronies will be there too.

[Bozvotros]

6. Intense devotion? WTF?

How can anyone have intense devotion for that mumbling, stumbling, tic ridden, failure drenched stew-bum? How empty and desperate do you have to be to devote yourself to Bush? Just wondering.

[NMDemDist2]

7. it's called "codependency"

some folks are just enablers and love a "wounded bird"

[susu369]

10. Personally, I don't see it as devotion so much as

simply an opportunist. It's all about their own ego and being able to jump on the bandwagon of a lifetime.

[cassiepriam]

9. Bush has complex relationships with these women. Very strange.

Are they the mothers he never had? Or girlfriends?
Or both? He is very infantile, delayed development.
He needs to be taken care of by lots of women.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. A "pinkie swear"?

How old are these women?

<gag>