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With his poll numbers already at one of the lowest points in his tenure following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush took an unusual public battering from conservatives last week after nominating White House counsel and longtime aide Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. But this week may offer Bush a chance to show progress on several issues that have plagued his second term. He will spend the first two days of the week in the Gulf Coast, where he'll attend the re-opening of a Mississippi elementary school and Habitat for Humanity building a house in Louisiana, as well...
JAMES DOBSON, Focus on the Family founder, qualifying his support of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. He had been quoted as saying, "Some of what I know I am not at liberty to talk about...
...Interesting woman, Harriet Miers. She was a Democrat, found God and then became a Republican. Which is kinda backwards. Usually in Washington, you become a Republican, get indicted, go to jail and then find...
...Club. Its members are the aides who have managed to keep up with him running a dusty three-mile course at his Crawford, Texas, ranch when the temperature is above 100°. It's certainly one way to get to know someone's heart, or at least his heart rate. Harriet Miers, 60, Bush's former personal lawyer, then loyal White House aide, was one of the few women to spend time clearing cedar with Bush on the ranch and pacing him on his runs, and over the years he got to know her well enough that he was sure...
...will go after liberal rulings of the past 30 years. "If she moves the law, it will be in small steps. She won't be one to say, 'Let's just throw all that out and do something different.'" One of the most intriguing insights into the Real Harriet Miers came from her longtime friend, former law partner and sometime love interest Justice Nathan Hecht, who is considered the most conservative justice on the Texas Supreme Court. "This is very important, and I don't think the public understands," he told TIME. "When you take an oath and swear that...