The Chameleon
I think I'm beginning to figure out Harriet Miers. She's a chameleon. She's whatever you want her to be.
How else can you reconcile the following:
From a questionnaire from the Texans United for Life:
versus
"The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual women's right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion. "
and
"Where science determines the facts, the law can effectively govern. However, when science cannot determine the facts and decisions vary based upon religious belief, then the government should not act."
The former seems pretty pro-life while the latter are standard liberal boilerplate, but both come from Harriet Miers (and not that long apart). So what gives?
Answer: Miers tells people what they want to hear. The questionnaire was from a right to life group. The speech was to a women's group.
If she gets confirmed, we can only hope that Miers latches on to Roberts instead of Kennedy or Souter.
(PS: To John Roberts. If Harriet Miers calls you "the coolest Chief Justice ever - deserving of great respect!", make her your personal lawyer. She'll follow you anywhere - assuming that she doesn't figure out she's hit a glass ceiling.)
How else can you reconcile the following:
From a questionnaire from the Texans United for Life:
versus
"The ongoing debate continues surrounding the attempt to once again criminalize abortions or to once and for all guarantee the freedom of the individual women's right to decide for herself whether she will have an abortion. "
and
"Where science determines the facts, the law can effectively govern. However, when science cannot determine the facts and decisions vary based upon religious belief, then the government should not act."
The former seems pretty pro-life while the latter are standard liberal boilerplate, but both come from Harriet Miers (and not that long apart). So what gives?
Answer: Miers tells people what they want to hear. The questionnaire was from a right to life group. The speech was to a women's group.
If she gets confirmed, we can only hope that Miers latches on to Roberts instead of Kennedy or Souter.
(PS: To John Roberts. If Harriet Miers calls you "the coolest Chief Justice ever - deserving of great respect!", make her your personal lawyer. She'll follow you anywhere - assuming that she doesn't figure out she's hit a glass ceiling.)
posted by Harsh Pencil | 10/26/2005 09:48:00 PM
I'm convinced. Hugh Hewitt is starting to be ecome a shrill over this. Today he said following an interview with David Frum that neither of them could be convinced otherwise.... EXCUSE ME HUGH! Of course you can change your mind. The Miers debate is not Left vs. Right, it's not about conservative principles, it's whether she or someone else should be appointed t the Court.
Clearly Miers has proven to all of us that she should not be on the Court (caveat: I support Miers over say... Blackmun).
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