Q: Is there anything else you think the members of the committee should know about you and your qualifications?
A: Just that I think you all are the most wonderful Senators in the entire history of the U.S. Senate …
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October 20, 2005
WB: Pop Quiz
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Miers provided misleading information
The embattled nominee is already under fire from members of her own party. Senators from both parties have questioned other answers she gave on her application, saying that her responses were “insufficient.” One Democrat went so far as to say her answers “range from incomplete to insulting.”
Beyond the Capstead’s SEC filing, Miers is listed as chair of the Audit Committee on the firm’s corporate website and a member of the Nominating Committee in the 1999 annual report. Miers also chaired the Audit Committee in 1998, according to the firm’s report.
Miers neglected to mention a class action lawsuit for violation of the Securities Exchange Act that was filed against the corporation in July 1998 and consolidated with 23 similar suits in 1999.
Stockholders “complain[ed] of a scheme by Capstead…and its top insiders to cause Capstead’s stock to trade at artificially inflated levels by misrepresenting Capstead’s financial results, its business, and the success of its investment strategy.” Miers was not named as a defendant in the case.
Posted by: annie | Oct 20 2005 18:17 utc | 1
I picked Harriet for a lot of reasons. One reason was because she had never been a judge.
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Secondly, the questionnaire that she filled out is an important questionnaire, and obviously they will address the questions that the senators have in the questionnaire — or as a result of the answers to the questions in the questionnaire.
At least “Harriet” can spell. Reading this reminds me of my least favorite part of teaching – grading the exams.
Posted by: mistah charley | Oct 20 2005 19:28 utc | 4
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
Ah-ha! It seems Harriet is really a Northern carpetbagger.
Posted by: michaelFromDC | Oct 20 2005 21:25 utc | 5
Hi,
I do so dearly love this that I’ve linked to it as the “full transcipt of the premiere episode of the new WHTV mini-series ‘MURDER BOARDS’ over at my blog.
Thanks much. Your stuff is brilliant.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | Oct 21 2005 10:10 utc | 6
Harriet’s good will tour isn’t generating any.
Strategists working with the White House in support of the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers are becoming increasingly demoralized and pessimistic about the nomination’s prospects on Capitol Hill in the wake of Miers’s meetings with several Republican and Democratic senators. On a conference call held this morning, they even discussed whether Miers should simply stop visiting with lawmakers, lest any further damage be done — and so that time spent in such get-acquainted sessions will not cut into Miers’s intensive preparation for her confirmation hearing.
“It’s been a gradual descent into almost silence,” says a second source of the calls. “The meetings with the senators are going terribly. On a scale of one to 100, they are in negative territory. The thought now is that they have to end….
Guess they didn’t like the cookies…
Posted by: lonesomeG | Oct 21 2005 19:07 utc | 7
Report: Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale
Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 _ 10 times the land’s worth _ despite the state’s objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.
The three-member committee that determined the price included Peggy Lundy, a friend of Miers, and property-rights activist Cathie Adams, Knight Ridder reported. They were appointed to the panel by state District Judge David Evans, who had received at least $5,000 in campaign contributions from Miers’ law firm.
If nothing else has, that does kill the nomination.
So who will be nominated now? Mrs. Brown?