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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (728612)3/1/2006 5:18:25 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Notwithstanding the apparent cronyism, what bothered me most about that situation was the lack of internal checks and balances that we had assumed existed in the WH. How could Rove and others have allowed him to nominate such a weak candidate?



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (728612)3/1/2006 5:19:13 PM
From: willcousa  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
The right looked at Harriet Miers and saw that she had the qualifications of Thurgood Marshall.



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (728612)3/1/2006 5:28:48 PM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
>>he tends to border on cronyism<<

That's basically what I'm saying. He had her pegged. There's no way she would have surprised him.

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