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Coulter-izing Harriet Miers
Oct. 14th, 2005 12:24 pm♠
“The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.”
-- Ann Coulter
Ah, the fiery Ann Coulter, the mini-skirted darling of the Right, as well as the object of loathing, scorn, and anal-rape fantasies of the Left. You are not likely to come across many columns or articles by her in this blog, but Monk cannot remember laughing so hard over a column as he did when reading this one.
In an aside, if one is interested in reading a heartfelt piece in the defense of the Harriet Miers nomination, you probably cannot do better than Matthew Scully's personal "The Harriet Miers I Know," in which he writes:
'Maybe [Presdient Bush] didn't want somebody who had been planning for 20 years for a place on the Supreme Court. Maybe he has looked around every so often and noticed that the least assuming person in the room was also the most capable and discerning. Or maybe he remembered how the hardest-working person in the White House found time to prepare the will of a terminally ill 27-year-old colleague, and to spend nights and mornings staying with her and praying with her.
'Whatever his reasons, what America got is a nominee of enormous legal ability and ferocious integrity, and in the bargain a gracious Christian woman only more qualified for her new role because she would never have sought it for herself. And in a few years, when the same critics we hear now are extolling the clarity, consistency and perhaps even the "brilliance" of judicial opinions, that's when you'll know it's the Miers court.'
All is to be debated and voted. The hearings should prove fascinating!
( Coulter column )
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“The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.”
-- Ann Coulter
Ah, the fiery Ann Coulter, the mini-skirted darling of the Right, as well as the object of loathing, scorn, and anal-rape fantasies of the Left. You are not likely to come across many columns or articles by her in this blog, but Monk cannot remember laughing so hard over a column as he did when reading this one.
In an aside, if one is interested in reading a heartfelt piece in the defense of the Harriet Miers nomination, you probably cannot do better than Matthew Scully's personal "The Harriet Miers I Know," in which he writes:
'Maybe [Presdient Bush] didn't want somebody who had been planning for 20 years for a place on the Supreme Court. Maybe he has looked around every so often and noticed that the least assuming person in the room was also the most capable and discerning. Or maybe he remembered how the hardest-working person in the White House found time to prepare the will of a terminally ill 27-year-old colleague, and to spend nights and mornings staying with her and praying with her.
'Whatever his reasons, what America got is a nominee of enormous legal ability and ferocious integrity, and in the bargain a gracious Christian woman only more qualified for her new role because she would never have sought it for herself. And in a few years, when the same critics we hear now are extolling the clarity, consistency and perhaps even the "brilliance" of judicial opinions, that's when you'll know it's the Miers court.'
All is to be debated and voted. The hearings should prove fascinating!
( Coulter column )
