{"id":5422,"date":"2005-10-03T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2005-10-03T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:49:04","slug":"is-reid-already-showing-his-hand-in-miers-fav0r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/is-reid-already-showing-his-hand-in-miers-fav0r\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Reid already showing his hand &#8212; in Miers favor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Note <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/print?id=156238&#038;cacheKill=313431\">reported<\/a> this morning that &#8220;one senior Democratic source on Capitol Hill confirms to ABC News that Democratic Leader Harry Reid signaled to Bush that Miers would be acceptable.&#8221; A statement from Reid&#8217;s office suggests this might be the case.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I like Harriet Miers.  As White House Counsel, she has worked with me in a courteous and professional manner.  I am also impressed with the fact that she was a trailblazer for women as managing partner of a major Dallas law firm and as the first woman president of the Texas Bar Association.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my view, the Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer.  The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts.  A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the Court.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to the Judiciary Committee process which will help the American people learn more about Harriet Miers, and help the Senate determine whether she deserves a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about the strategy behind this, but it appears that Miers has not exactly triggered a guns-a-blazin&#8217; response from Dems on the Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Note reported this morning that &#8220;one senior Democratic source on Capitol Hill confirms to ABC News that Democratic Leader Harry Reid signaled to Bush that Miers would be acceptable.&#8221; A statement from Reid&#8217;s office suggests this might be the case. &#8220;I like Harriet Miers. As White House Counsel, she has worked with me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}