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And whom does he pick? The right, at least the conservative intellectual right, didn't care about her heart as much as her other muscles, her constitutional brilliance, her persuasive powers, her ability to walk into all that marble and make some history. It had its sacred short list of...
Now the anger and ironies wrap around each other. By picking someone he knew so well, Bush hoped to avoid making the kind of miscalculation his father had made with David Souter, yet now he stands accused of doing just that. And by avoiding a costly fight with the left...
As for Miers herself, what did the critics know about her that made them so hostile--and what did they not know that made them so anxious? She is described as a private person who misses nothing. "A pit bull in size 6 shoes," Bush called her. Likes chocolate. Remembers...
In Miers' case, being in the right place meant being a Texan who crossed paths with George W. Bush at a gala dinner in 1989 and eventually turned to follow him. A math major at Southern Methodist University (she was one year ahead of Laura Bush at S.M.U.), she dreamed...
One of Miers' jobs as White House counsel was to judge the judges, including the search that ended with the Roberts pick. According to a presidential adviser who has been briefed on the chronology of the decision, senior adviser Karl Rove was less involved than he is in most major...