{"id":1257,"date":"2005-10-03T08:49:37","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/judicial_temperament\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:49:37","slug":"judicial_temperament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/judicial_temperament.html","title":{"rendered":"JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ask\/20041029.html\" class=inline target=new><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A pitbull in size 6 shoes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ask\/images\/hmiers-100.jpg\" width=80 align=right border=0><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/20\/AR2005062001161.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;A pitbull in size 6 shoes&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8212; that&#8217;s what the Bullshitter-in-Chief has called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/government\/hmiers-bio.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Harriet Miers<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, right, the trusted adviser and legal gofer he nominated this morning to replace Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. What does that say about Miers&#8217;s judicial temperament, let alone his arrogance? Next question &#8230;<br \/>\nSo here it is: Did she really say (this comes courtesy of Salon.com&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/daoureport.salon.com\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Daou Report<\/strong><\/font><\/a>) what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidfrum.com\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>David Frum<\/font><\/strong><\/a> is reported to have said she said? <A HREF=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/she-once-told-me-that-president-was.html\" class=inline target=new><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> A rhyme with reason &#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><i>LOWERING THE BAR<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Miers the minimum,<br \/>\nLawyer by trade;<br \/>\nNo known philosophy,<br \/>\nJudicial blockade.<br \/>\nIf Miers shot down,<br \/>\nDeemed unfit,<br \/>\nBush warming up<br \/>\nAn illiterate.<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8212; Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Miers, right, the trusted adviser and legal gofer he nominated this morning to replace Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. What does that say about Miers&#8217;s judicial temperament, let alone his arrogance? Next question &#8230; So here it is: Did she really say (this comes courtesy of Salon.com&#8217;s David Frum is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}