{"id":5427,"date":"2005-10-03T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5427.html"},"modified":"2005-10-03T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T16:33:25","slug":"miers-online-paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/miers-online-paper-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Miers’ online paper trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you’re anxious to read up on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. She has no public record, so it’s going to be a little tricky. After a cursory look, I can’t find any papers she’s published in the academic world, she hasn’t done much in the way of public speaking, and there’s no way on earth the Bush gang is going to give up her White House counsel memoranda. Just out of curiosity, I did a cursory search for articles that reference her from before today at Salon, Slate, Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The New Republic, and the Center for American Progress. A few had a stray reference here and there, but nothing of any substance.<\/p>\n

The online paper trail, however, includes one document of note. Miers did an online chat<\/a> about a week before last year’s presidential election.<\/p>\n

There are, alas, no blockbuster revelations here, but you can at least read about Miers support for Bush’s No Child Left Behind Law, her belief that the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge should be drilled, her praise for Bush’s efforts to “secure our borders,” and her belief that the White House budget is “a restoration of fiscal discipline.”<\/p>\n

The whole thing is oddly partisan and rather sycophantic — and doesn’t exactly include the wisdom and insight one might hope for from a Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you’re anxious to read up on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. She has no public record, so it’s going to be a little tricky. After a cursory look, I can’t find any papers she’s published in the academic world, she hasn’t done much in the way of public speaking, and there’s no way on […]<\/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-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","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=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}