Harriet Miers Watch: The Harriet and George W Letters

The Smoking Gun has The Harriet And George Letters

Bush-Miers Texas correspondence reveals mutual admiration society

Sure, nobody seems to know anything about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s judicial philosophy, abortion position, or conservative bona fides. But here’s something not open for debate: the old gal loves exclamation points and seemed to enjoy writing gushy notes to then-Governor George W. Bush. Below you’ll find copies of personal correspondence exchanged between Bush and Miers from 1995-2000 (before migrating to Washington, Miers headed the Texas State Lottery Commission, a post to which Bush appointed her). The Bush-Miers letters were among more than 2000 pages of documents released this week by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. In a 1997 Hallmark greeting card (adorned with a photo of a dog), Miers sent along belated birthday wishes and noted that “You are the best governor ever–deserving of great respect!” In another note (penned on an American Greetings card), Miers wrote that she hoped Bush’s daughters realized that their parents were “cool.” A 1995 Miers note thanked Bush for a visit, adding that an airplane ride with the governor was “Cool!” Sadly, the document dump did not include Miers’s e-mail or IM messages, which are surely filled with loads of sappy emoticons. (18 pages)

First, it was the press searching through Robert Bork’s trash cans and researching his video rental records.

Now, it is Harriet Miers’ birthday cards.

And folks wonder why some candidates like Flap’s fav, federal appeals court judge Priscilla Owen, may not have wanted the job?

The price of a free press.

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