Miers apparently was a flaming liberal while Dallas Councilwoman

[ruggerson]

Will this drive them over the edge or what?

:rofl:



http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12836773.htm

WASHINGTON - In what appear to be some of her only public statements about a constitutional issue, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers testified in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that the Dallas City Council had too few black and Hispanic members, and that increasing minority representation should be a goal of any change in the city's political structure.


In the same testimony, Miers, then a member of the council, said she believed that the city should divest its South African financial holdings and work to boost economic development in poor and minority areas. She also said she "wouldn't belong to the Federalist Society" or other "politically charged" groups because they "seem to color your view one way or another."


Miers' thoughts about racial diversity placed her squarely on the progressive side of the 1990 suit, which was pivotal in shifting power in Dallas politics to groups outside the traditional, mostly white establishment.

[Soup Bean]

1. This is rich!

I must admit, I'm really enjoying seeing the benign mask being ripped off these crazy ultra-right wingers. That crazy backwards stuff is really bad for business, and Bush just proved that he's a Corporatist first, and right wing zealot when it suits him to be so to mobilize voters.

All he really has left now is terror, and the John Birch society can re-form and take in all the right wing goobers he's left out in the cold.

C'est la vie.

[Zynx]

2. I don't think she has consistent political beliefs.

I think she changes whenever a certain position will benefit her politically, socially, or with her career. Thus, she will be highly susceptible to the influence of others if she gets on the court.

[rosesaylavee]

5. I agree - she is now the darling of Dobson

and he wouldn't be supporting her if she were still progressive in her leanings. My bet is that she has swung the other way.

Hopefully all this swinging will disqualify her for both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate.

[ruggerson]

7. I think her political belief is "George W Bush"

beyond that, who the hell knows.

[tanyev]

9. You're wrong, you're wrong! She'll never change!

Our Glorious Leader said so! And he's incapable of lying!

Ouch. Doing Freeper impressions gives me headaches. :banghead:

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Oh how funny!

Bush nominated a liberal! LOL!!! Maybe this is why there is no paper trail. But why is she Bush's personal lawyer and why would/does Bush have a liberal for a lawyer?

[Gloria]

4. If this was before she whigged out and became really far right,

then this is meaningless and should not confuse the issue. Anyone so entrenched in the Buscho circle for so many years isn't going to revert, I just don't think it could happen....

[MrModerate]

6. I think this shows a very scary tendency toward . . .

Egregious Toadyism Syndrome (ETS).

She had some convenient "born again" experience at the point in her career where hooking up with 'Licans would advance her ambitions. She's a half-assed climber and a groupie with extremely low standards. (Did she plaster-cast Schimpanski, I wonder?)

No wonder the wingnutariat is outraged. There's no telling what she'll do on the court. Maybe she'll fall under the sway of Svengali Scalia, but maybe her narrow-gauge mind will derail and she'll spend the next 10 or 20 years drooling all over the briefs.

A painful irony here is that she'll probably be a disaster for lefty and righty alike. Which is to say, a disaster for America.

[melody]

8. she waves the flag of the nation marching through town