I have kept away from voicing an open opinion about the Harriet Miers nomination (mostly out of delight at watching the fight) but this is pretty pathetic:
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee asked U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to give more substantive and complete answers in writing to questions about her professional background and service as White House counsel.
The panel's chairman, Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, voiced dismay that Miers submitted "insufficient'' responses to the panel's questionnaire, which was made public yesterday. Specter and the panel's top Democrat, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, sent Miers a three-page letter with detailed instructions for answering nine questions by Oct. 26. The committee's confirmation hearings will begin Nov. 7.
"The comments I have heard range from incomplete to insulting,'' Leahy told reporters. "Certainly it was inadequate, and it did not give us enough to prepare for a hearing. We will have to have more.''
Add this to the disclosure that Miers supports a constitutional ban on abortion, although she is said to not necessarily advocate the overturning of Roe v. Wade, whatever that means. This tactic will likely anger both liberals and conservatives, and this latest demonstration of ineptitude will anger just about everybody else.
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