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This is just silly
No matter which side of the fence you are on regarding the nomination of Harriet Miers, I think you’ll agree that the following snippets from this story is just silly:
Miers told Mr. Bush in a 1997 birthday card that he was “the best governor ever” and, in a separate note to her boss, said she hoped his twin daughters recognize their parents are “cool.”
The correspondence with Mr. Bush was among thousands of pages of records released Monday by the Texas state archives from Miers’ record as chair of the Texas Lottery Commission from 1995-2000.
A transcript of her confirmation hearing before the state Senate in 1995 indicated that lawmakers asked Miers, an attorney, only a few questions and that her nomination by Mr. Bush was generally unopposed.
Miers and Mr. Bush exchanged several birthday notes and general well-wishes during her lottery tenure.
In 1997, Miers sent him a belated birthday card featuring a sad-looking dog and the note: “Dear Governor GWB, You are the best Governor ever — deserving of great respect!” She added, “At least for thirty days — you are not younger than me.”
Mr. Bush’s birthdate is July 6, 1946; Miers’ is Aug. 10, 1945.
Mr. Bush wrote back to wish Miers a happy 52nd birthday, telling her that he appreciated her friendship and to “never hold back your sage advice.” He ended with a postscript: “No more public scatology.”
That October, Miers wrote Mr. Bush a note saying she hopes his twins, Jenna and Barbara, recognize they have “cool” parents.
Mr. Bush told Miers in a birthday note in 2000: “Have a great life!”
*Sigh* – there are plenty of things to be concerned with concerning the Miers nomination. Her writing cute notes in birthday cards to the President are not one of them (unless they read something like “George, thanks for last night. It was pure heaven!” or something 
. I think the media has established that Miers and the Prez have been close over the years without having to report something like this as though it’s ‘telling’. Sheesh.
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I think it will be cool to have a 60 year old virgin on the court.
We had 50 years of brilliance and see what it got us.
I don’t think the Christmas cards are the real issue here; nor, for that matter, is Miers. Conservatives have been upset at Bush’s domestic record for some time. Many were not thrilled with John Roberts but recognized that he was, at least, qualified. But the Miers nomination was the last straw.
Whatever the issue, I maintain that bringing up greeting card notes is just silly.
Sis, you really. Really. REALLY shouldn’t have put that monstrous image in my head. Really.
Sorry ’bout that AT
Of course it’s silly. It’s all silly. In my short lifetime, we’ve gone from public hairs on coke cans in one confirmation hearing, to a Congress obsessed with semen on the dress of the President’s mistress. Public scatology? How quaint!
EB: Hmmm. I’d never looked at it that way. I wouldn’t call it an obsession with ’scatology’ though, but perhaps an obsession of sorts to try and find something, anything that will stick (no pun intended) on the opposition to mar their rep. In the case of Clinton, I truly wish he would have been carted off for the Chinagate scandal, which was the biggest scandal of his presidency (IMO) and with Thomas, that whole “Coke can inquisition” was just sickeningly embarassing for a USSC justice confirmation hearing.
You and I sit on (far) opposite sides of the aisle, but let’s just set aside the politics for 30 seconds. Either its wrong, inappropriate, or silly for the media to exploit our curiosity about the private conduct of public figures. If both Thomas and Clinton are fair game in the press, we shouldn’t be surprised that cute birthday cards from a SCOTUS nominee and her favorite boss are just another day’s newspaper filler, in the grand scheme of things.
Believe me, I’m not “surprised” by this at all and the media can and will do things like this to just about anyone, but I still maintain this is silly because it shows absolutely nothing about Miers outside of the fact that she liked to write cute notes in cards. God help if I’m ever in a position where my greeting card notes are scrutinized!