Miers Bush's personal secretary

[insane_cratic_gal]

She's Bush's Filter basically. We all know his news is dumbed down and spun, apparently Miers is the one who does it.

http://www.smu.edu/smunews/harrietmiers/miers-smumagazine-text.htm

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Miers labors behind the scenes in a West Wing office, every surface piled high with folders and documents. Yet as the gatekeeper for presidential paperwork, she is an assistant to the President and, therefore, a senior staff member and adviser to him.

“This is certainly not a job that I was aware existed before it was offered to me,” Miers says. “The position was created to make sure of two things: first, that documents going to the President are appropriately screened and prepared in the right form, and also that the President receives the benefit of the advice of all appropriate senior staff with regard to the issues being presented to him. The President is entitled to know when his advisers agree on an issue, when they disagree, and what their disagreements are.”

To keep the information flowing, Miers and her staff work in shifts beginning early and ending late. It is not uncommon for a staff member to arrive at 5:30 a.m. to handle paperwork that has come in during the evening or to prepare for early morning events. Miers’ office also is responsible for ensuring that the President receives his nightly briefing book. Throughout the day, Miers talks frequently with other members of the President’s staff to discuss the documents that pertain to issues in their areas of expertise. She often travels with the President to continue processing the necessary documents and to ensure that the briefing book for each day is properly prepared.

[mattclearing]

1. That doesn't sound like legal work. n/t

[Tesla]

2. BAGHDAD BOB!!!

She is the hidden BoB!!

She is the sdvisor who is scared to tell him bad news.
I wonder what day she included "Hurricane Kartina" in her nightly briefing book!!

[FourStarDemocrat]

3. And that qualifies her for Supreme Court? n /t

His next nominee (god forbid!) will be the dude who walks his dog everyday.

[ComerPerro]

4. She has to screen and dumb down his briefings, and she thinks he is smart?

[DemonFighterLives]

5. I got a good laugh when Big Eddy said yesterday

that since dubby couldn't find a qualified person, just stick the secretary in there. She is accustomed to carrying water for the numbnuts.

[MuseRider]

6. Makes her sound

more like his nanny. :eyes:

[Vanje]

7. Did she hand Bush the August 2001 daily briefing about Bin Laden?

The one titled something like, " Bin Laden to attack USA real darned soon."

[kskiska]

8. According to an LAT article

she even picks up a chainsaw and helps him clear brush. She's known as his "work wife."

[neebob]

9. That's disgusting

We now have a Chief Justice who's such an obvious bullshitter that SNL made an animated feature using the actual recordings of his answers - answers that no sane person would have thought adequate in response to real questions, but a majority of U.S. senators somehow did find them adequate ... or pretended they did. Now he's appointed some nutty old woman who probably believes she might fly out of her robes and float up to heaven in the middle of a hearing. Never mind that she said George W. Bush is the most brilliant man she'd ever met.

And between them, they have like five minutes of actual judicial experience. Ugh!

Oh, and before anybody jumps on my having called her a nutty old woman, don't assume that I'm male because of the bob.