In a pretty much bipartisan rebuke, the Senate Judiciary Committee told Miers to take her questionnaire back and fill the damned thing out completely.
WASHINGTON -- Calling her responses "inadequate" and "insufficient," the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the highly unusual step Wednesday of asking Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to redo significant portions of the questionnaire she had submitted to the committee just a day earlier.I fear, however, that the committee won't get too much more.
Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's senior Democrat, sent Miers a letter seeking more detailed responses to a third of their original questions, covering almost every aspect of her legal work and continuing through the selection process that led to her nomination. And they sought more information from her about her work as White House counsel.
She can't, after all, report a lot of what doesn't exist.
On the balance of her answers, they're incomplete," said Specter, noting she had only provided a "skimpy little group" of cases she had handled.All this while the White House spin machine was attempting to gain support for Miers by emphasizing her qualifications and her 'distinguished legal career.'
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Leahy said reactions to the questionnaire by senators on the Judiciary Committee ranged from "insulting" to "incomplete."
Uh, what distinguished legal career is that?
And qualifications? That she thinks the W-imbecile is 'cool?'
That's about it. Doesn't look like the Senate is ready to roll over and play White House lap dog in this instance. Maybe, just maybe, they might want a qualified candidate. Or at least one smart enough to fake it.
Looks to me like the W-imbecile's approval rating is falling not only in the general populace but on the Hill as well.
About time.
And so it goes.
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