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    John Hourihan, wire editor of the Connecticut Post, contemplates our common purpose.

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    October 27, 2005

    Was Harriet Miers just a ploy?

    Come on now. It the nomination of Harriet "we hardly knew ya" Miers wasn't a skillfully played hoax, it should have been. And the president should take credit for it in his memoirs.

    He should say something like, "It was a nucular Thursday and everyone, you know, was badgering me about my next nomination for the Supreme Court. Even Laura put her two cents in. And then the girls.

    Everyone wanted a woman.

    "I thought, Oh Yeah? And just then the White House counsel walked by the oval office and I thought, 'Boy that would serve them right.' So I did it.

    "I stood up and said my choice to become the next Supreme Court Justice is the woman who spent about 30 years with a Texas law firm and managed to get out of trying any cases except 12, which rivals my National Guard attendance record.

    "My choice is the woman who it was said of in her yearbook, 'Very good at sports, or so we hear.'

    My choice is a woman who headed up the lottery in my home state has known my family for years and knows stuff about me you wouldn't believe.

    "My choice is Harriet Miers."

    "I never intended for it to go any farther than that. I mean, ya know, it was a joke. No one told me the cameras were on and then there she was, beaming like one of those flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. I had done what everyone wanted. I nominated a woman.

    You're a woman right Harriet?"

    "No kidding, I knew all along they wouldn't let her in. I mean my own political power base said the equivalent of 'George don't be an idiot. Have you slipped off the wagon? This is no time for one of your pin-head jokes.'

    "But I fooled 'em all. I nominatd a woman and they turned her down.

    "Now I can get on with the Hispanic thing.

    "So that's when I got up and said, "My nomination for the next justice of the Supreme Court is Cheech Marin."

    "Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

    Posted by Hourihan on October 27, 2005 8:11 AM

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