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26 October 2005

Harriet Miers is done; D-U-N, done.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, in speeches a decade ago, said "self-determination" should guide decisions about abortion and also defended social activism, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, in speeches a decade ago, said "self-determination" should guide decisions about abortion and also defended social activism, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The speeches, which she provided to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, offer some of the clearest insights yet into Miers' thinking on contentious social issues that could come before the Supreme Court, the newspaper said. Miers talked about abortion, the separation of church and state, and how the issues play out in the legal system in a 1993 speech to a Dallas women's group, the newspaper said.

"The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination," Miers said in an excerpt reported by the Post. "And the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes sense."

In speeches delivered when she was president of the Texas bar association, Miers also defended judges who order lawmakers to address social concerns, the newspaper said.

Miers also showed sympathy for feminist causes, referring to the "glass ceiling" faced by professional women and urged her audience to support female candidates, according to the report.
Already suspect in the eyes of the far right, Harriet Miers has officially lost any wingnut cred, whatsoever. Over a span of mere months, indignant demands that "every nominee receive an up-or-down vote," has given way to withdrawharrietmiers.org. With these latest revelations, the radical right will dive deeper into hypocrisy and cite Bush's refusal to provide records of Miers' legal advice to declare that there isn't enough information about her. After all, asking for background is only obstructionist when democrats do it; now, it's "doing one's due diligence."
"Self-determination?" "Glass ceiling?"
Such words are anathema to Dear Leader's base, and I, for one, cannot wait for the frothing to begin. The right's glaringly contradictory positions on Treasongate vs. Lewinskygate are years apart and sometimes difficult to dig up. Not that the MSM bothers to try. This time, the wingnuts' self-righteous rhetoric about the sanctity of a presidential appointment lasted only weeks before evaporating to reveal their single-minded obsession for an unabashed ideologue on the bench. Deprived of a thoroughly litmus-tested candidate, all their sanctimonius bullshit is exposed for exactly what it is. Here's to Bush showing his customary "resolve" and making them all choke on it.

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