I can't help but feel sorry for Harriet Miers.

[boomboom]

She seemed like a nice woman. Obviously smart, I know what it takes to be a managing partner of a Dallas law firm. Just out of her league, I guess. Maybe tired. I don't blame her. Maybe she's realized the "best governer ever" has become the "worst president ever" If so, she's smarter than I give her credit for. Probably, she's been considered disposable. Bless her heart.

[monmouth]

1. Either that or she doesn't want to be the one to sign those pesky

subpoenas when they come in. She's smart to get out now before the crapola starts to really flow. He's lining up some lawyers with better creds.

[boomboom]

3. he sure loved her creds for the supreme court nom.....

I hope it was her choice to leave. But I doubt it. Sadly, they can't say she wanted to spend more time with family. Of course, thanks to Laura, Condi can't use that excuse any more either. Interesting times...............

[orleans]

15. sure he loved her -- he said she had great spirit (or some such crap)

as he leered at her

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

It's awfully hard for me to feel sorry for somebody who's been enabling Bush

for all those years. But in a way she is kind of pitiful -- she's like the nerdy girl in high school who has a huge, obvious crush on the football jock and does his algebra for him, hoping that will make him like her, and he kind of strings her along so he can pass algebra, but then when the other cool kids start teasing him about her crush he cruelly starts ignoring her as soon as he gets his final math grades. And she can't figure out why, because she thinks the jock is so wonderful that he couldn't possibly be mistreating her deliberately. She keeps writing his name in her spiral notebook and hanging around his locker and bringing him cookies, but he takes the cheerleader to the prom. Eventually she figures it all out; she's heartbroken and humiliated and doesn't try to hang out with him any more.

And that, IMO, is why poor Harriet quit her job.

[boomboom]

4. perfect. pitiful and very sad

[Sal Minella]

12. Ouch, how embarrassing to read one's high school history fifty years later!

[Straight Shooter]

2. Harriet is a big girl and has known all along what kind of person bush is.

Don't feel sorry for her. She and bush probably had more than a few jokes together about sticking it to people who couldn't fight back.

Harriet is getting out before it all hits the fan, but I'm sure some of it's going to splatter on her, too.

[Generator]

5. Let me sum up

The Du thought on this, "Fuck her and the horse she rode in on."

Oh and she's a Bush enabler. She should rot.

Actually I don't know if she's an idiot, but she is deluded. She reminds me of that secretary for Nixon. The one that admired him so and never met a man that told a lie or that she didn't like? Now I forgot the quote!

Well, who knows how stupid or dumb she is. But being loyal to bad guys is not really a prize of history. Also reminds me of Hitler's secretary. Sad old ladies that get swept up by the charm of these rascally powerful men. SWEET!

[boomboom]

8. You're right to a point

I guess my own point is I feel she's been used in so many ways. She obviouly chose her own course. But like so many others in this administration, who have been successful in prior lives and just got sucked in, she's the one I feel most abused. Not sure why. I sure don't admire her, I just feel sorry for her.

[orleans]

17. was it rummy's horse?

[AlCzervik]

6. i bet she knows where all the bodies are buried.

[Sydnie]

9. I was thinking the same thing

and with the Libby trial set to start in just days, it can't be a bad thing for her that she will no longer be in Washington and as readily accessible to the court.

[AlCzervik]

11. and you know she had to sign some lengthy confidentially agreement.

so we won't be hearing from Harriett anytime soon.

[la la]

7. Rats. Sinking. Ship. N/T

[USA_1]

10. Harriet rocks!

[riderinthestorm]

13. Condi probably finally laid it on the line, SHE'S Mrs. Bush, not Harriet nt.

[kskiska]

23. Condi had a permanent room at the Pig Farm

Harriet was assigned to one of the trailers there.

[kstewart33]

14. I feel the same.

She's obviously worked like a dog all of her working life. Single, no kids, alone. Marriage isn't essential for personal success, of course, but a good one helps at times like these.

I hope she has close friends back in Texas.

[Warpy]

16. It's more likely that she's smart enough to realize

that quite a few Democrats in Congress are going to be asking uncomfortable questions about just who advised Stupid that things like those unconstitutional signing statements are somehow legal when he does them.

They'll be asking questions about a lot of bad legal advice those bidnessmen turned crooked politicians have been getting and who has been giving it to them.

If the Pubbies had held on to a majority in one chamber, I think she'd have hung on grimly until the bitter end.

[bdamomma]

18. I do not feel sorry for her, feel sorry for her, she was the one

who showed Bush the PDB in Aug. before the 9/11 attack and just blew it off, what? feel sorry for her? not me.

[BlooInBloo]

19. I can. She freely chose to hitch her horse to the idiot amoral bigot party. Fuck her.

[badgerpup]

20. Umm, that "Bless her heart"?

Is that in a Southern context?

Just remembering the rather cryptic (unless you were either a native of the South or familiar with the code) comments that Laura used regarding Condi's possibly running for president a few weeks ago...
she sounded oh-so-sweetly-polite, but she left acid burns and bloodstains in her wake...

[boomboom]

21. yeah, i am rather southern

[salin]

22. Ousted b/c she was considered too much of a light weight

for the coming congressional investigations...

so Bush nominated to the supreme court what he (or his handlers) consider too much of a lightweight to serve them in tough circumstances (of their own creation). Good enough for the supreme court, but not good enough to protect me. Interesting, eh?

[boomboom]

24. interesting a little. mostly disturbing. and typical of this admin. but y'all knew that.....