{"id":5511,"date":"2005-10-12T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2005-10-12T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T14:51:37","slug":"there-must-be-a-great-story-behind-that-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/there-must-be-a-great-story-behind-that-one\/","title":{"rendered":"There must be a great story behind that one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we all recoiled at the disturbingly sycophantic correspondence<\/a> between Harriet Miers and then-Gov. Bush in Texas. There was one little tidbit<\/a>, however, that was overlooked.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate your friendship and candor. Never hold back your sage advice,” [Bush] wrote. “P.S. No more public scatology.” Whether Bush was referring to Miers’ rough-and-tumble time as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission or something else isn’t clear. Scatology refers to “the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity,” according to Webster’s dictionary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, it’s hardly a stretch to believe that Bush has no idea what “scatology” means. For all he knows, if refers to a style of jazz signing.<\/p>\n

But let’s say Bush does understand the word. One has to wonder exactly what the circumstances are that led him to write Miers this note.<\/p>\n

After all, the Dallas Morning News recently quoted<\/a> a longtime friend of Miers saying, “Not only did Harriet never tell a joke, she never laughed. She might smile so she didn’t look stern. But she would never say anything snide. In the 22 years I’ve known her, I’ve never heard her use a curse word. Not even ‘hell’ or ‘damn.'”<\/p>\n

With this in mind, what do you suppose would prompt Bush to write this? For that matter, as Michael Crowley noted<\/a>, what will conservative opponents of Miers’ nomination think about a woman with a public preoccupation with excrement or obscenity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we all recoiled at the disturbingly sycophantic correspondence between Harriet Miers and then-Gov. Bush in Texas. There was one little tidbit, however, that was overlooked. “I appreciate your friendship and candor. Never hold back your sage advice,” [Bush] wrote. “P.S. No more public scatology.” Whether Bush was referring to Miers’ rough-and-tumble time as chairwoman […]<\/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-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}