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Harriet Miers, Bush’s failed Supreme Court nominee, has submitted her resignation as White House counsel. Here’s our video tribute, from back in the day of her Supreme Court nomination:
UPDATE: Miers pushed out?
The White House strongly hinted that White House Counsel Harriet Miers’s departure had been encouraged. She had a “series of conversations in recent days” with Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, Snow said, and “she made her decision yesterday,” i.e. Wednesday. People close to the White House say Bolten had hoped to make a change in the counsel’s office when he took over in the spring of 2006. Miers’s style didn’t mesh well with that of the crisply organized former investment banker, people who know them say.
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Harriet, we hardly knew ya.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pmProbably a good thing.
Ugh. Why video. Let the old bag go quietly and unseen.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:26 pmMaybe she senses the noose tightening around the criminals in the White House and wants to get out early. Maybe she is cutting a deal right now with prosecutors.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:36 pmWill she still be available to testify to the crimes of this regime? That’s all that matters.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:37 pmyea… i wouldn’t want to be around for the shite fest that i hope is coming soon either…
January 4th, 2007 at 2:38 pmbuh bye, harriet… but don’t think you’re out of the woods…
Didn’t want to be around when Alberto’s house of cards comes ‘a tumbling down…
January 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm#2, it’s another Bush crony we’re rid of
Everyone could see right through the entire thing, and all Bush ever appoints are cronies that Bush, Cheney, and friends know are loyal to their personal agenda.
Great video, but you guys should put it on YouTube and possibly slow down the first text a little it just flew, had to pause to read it
January 4th, 2007 at 2:40 pmHarriet’s book — My Years With George: Kisses & Cuddles
January 4th, 2007 at 2:46 pmCome on folks, I’m sure that attorney/guiltyashellclient priviledge extends to her dealings with the insanepresident.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pmShe probably didn’t want to actually have to do any - ya know - *legal* work–which will likely start to pile up now as the 110th starts to get down to business and asking uncomfortable questions of the bushies.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:55 pmMore Bushies jumping overboard.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:03 pmThis new Congress promises to make things particularly uncomfortable for Bush&Co - something they haven’t had to face in 6 years - Harriet knows the temper tantrums of the boy-king, and has taken her leave.
Harriet was only window dressing for George. And “the fear” is starting to consume george. He knows that he will need a rovian type lawyer to address the mountains of litigation that is bound to come his way. As President, he pledged to uphold the Constitution. He has totally failed his basic responsibilities as President. And he knows it.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:25 pmNow, with back to the wall and drowned in his own generated fear, he replaces a female evangelist who could only pray for his aquital.
Bushy’s gonna have to get some of dem’ sophisticated lawyer-types to defend his ass.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:26 pmCaption contest:
Bush: “And if you climb up into the top of that tree over yonder, it will be just like sitting on the highest court in the land.”
January 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pmBush:”Harriet, I just heard someone up there prosposing to you? You see that tree up there…?!!
January 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pmI can’t come up with a better caption, but here goes.
“See Harriet, my relatives live up in that tree.”
January 4th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI actually feel sorry for Harriet, she is nice lady who got put through the ringer. I know, she is bad just because she helped Bush. I think it was out of philanthropy, helping the disadvantaged.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:28 pmThat photo also reminds me of a group home “outing” as a staff person pretends to be interested in what this resident is pointing at.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:40 pmI wonder if W will have Billy Rhenquist exhumed to be her replacement?
January 4th, 2007 at 4:51 pmMaybe even her daily prayers weren’t working. Bush is STILL the Crawford Village idiot and she can’t change that.
Time to saddle up and move on out.
January 4th, 2007 at 5:18 pmIs there a difference in terms of client privelege between being “the” President’s (the office of) lawyer and “a” President’s (the person) lawyer?
January 4th, 2007 at 5:36 pmShe knows the hearings are upon us folks.
January 4th, 2007 at 6:37 pmWould anyonne be surprised if she disappears ?
Don’t you date before there’s a marriage proposal? I think that’s how it works?
As far as I know Harriet hasn’t had a date for a while—like maybe 40 years. She probably had her last date when Elivs was popular. Elivs Presley, not Elvis Costello.
The right-wing fundies didn’t give her a fair hearing. They came out swinging and demonized her. She was very wounded before the confirmation process even began. She stumbled a bit, and then her ship was sunk. Realistically, I don’t think she was Supreme Court material. Apparently, she’s not marriage material either.
Dumbo Bush was at the helm of the Titantic, and he didn’t see one iceberg in sight. How he didn’t forsee a nasty political battle is beyond me.
John
January 4th, 2007 at 7:13 pmThank you for being a friend.
In good times
and bad times
I’ll be on your side forever more
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
John
January 4th, 2007 at 7:34 pmI love the video! My favorite part was the shot of her doing yardwork with Bush on his ranch. And the song is awesome :-)
January 5th, 2007 at 4:49 amOkay, she was incompetent and she helped the worstest government ever-ever – but..
..I can’t help myself of feeling sorry for her. She did her job as best as she could. I’m sure she never sought the limelight. But she was used from the very persons she trusted. That’s not an experience I wish to anybody.
January 5th, 2007 at 6:05 am“I need a wartime consiglierie, Tom.”
January 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm