Harriet Miers's Blog!!!

BOUNCING BACK

2005-10-29T18:50:00.000-04:00

I've done alot of thinking over the last few days and you know what? I really do think this worked out as good as it possibly could have. No, I won't be a Justice. But then again most people are never a Justice, even really successful people. I learned alot about the Supreme Court, I learned alot about "Blogging"--and I learned alot about myself.

So, I'm turning my blog back to its natural state... guess which color... Pink!! And I might not post as often now. But I will definately read comments and stay on email and everything so stay in touch.

Also I've been thinking about, what if they say "Hey, Harriet would've actually been great!! Lets get her again." How would I answer. Well you know what, this may surprise you, but my answer would actually be no! I've always had a philosophy of, "Judge not or you'll be judged yourself." And here I was thinking about being a judge full-time. Not a good fit.

In closing, I hope I can be an inspiration to other nominees in the future. God bless America (and the Blogosphere!!).

Love,

HARRIET

XOXOXOXOX

WOW I FEEL LOVED

2005-10-28T14:44:00.000-04:00

You know how when people die, they have a funeral and all they're friends come, and its like, "hey if only they'd known how everyone cared about them when they were still alive"? Well this is like that!! I really want to thank everyone for all of the support and Kind Words. I have so much to be thankful for. And, last night I was bowling and got three strikes in a row...maybe I should get withdrawn more often! LOL But seriously it warms my heart. I'll be okay.

Also some people have been asking about my reaction to the Scooter stuff... well I don't know where you're from but in AMERICA, there's a little thing called "abstinent until proven guilty."

UPDATE: OMG I meant "innocent"... [RED FACE] maybe I do need to take some time off

TECHNICAL QUESTION

2005-10-27T13:00:00.000-04:00

I have to help figure out who the next nominee is... I know, sucks... so here's a question. Can you nominate John Roberts for Associate Justice, so he'd get two votes on the SCOTUS? He was a really good nominee last time.

THANK-YOU NOTE

2005-10-27T12:09:00.000-04:00

Dear Supporters.

This is obv a really hard day for me, I was super excited about being a Justice. I was looking at my very first blog post and it made me cry. But this day isn't about me. Its about all of us. And I have to say... Thank You.

Of course I have to start with a thank you to Hugh. Hugh Hewitt. Hugh your the best!! Here's what Hugh wrote today,

Ms. Miers deserves great thanks for her significant service to the country.

Same to you!! Your simply the greatest.

Thank you to everyone who writes comments on this blog, Mike Sparkle Judy Gyrobo Bob Liz Ah Patrick EVERYONE, you know who you are. You are my BFF, for real.

Thank you to Nicolle...its the Silver Lining that I get to stay in the WH and work with you again. Your the BEST!!

But Most Of All...

THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. I know this wasn't you're decision any more than it was mine...but guess what, we're going to STICK TOGETHER just like always!!

Its a pleasure to serve you sir, now and always.

I'll never forget being the Nominee, it was a learning experience at the very least.

Always remember. Follow you're heart.

Love,

PS to everyone who has written in saying I should do a Write-In Campaign, thanx, I don't want to rule anything out right now but its probably a No-Go. (If your a senator please email me, I need advice about this.)

WIP (WITHDRAW IN PEACE), ME, NOMINEE 10/3/05 - 10/27/05

2005-10-27T09:45:00.000-04:00

Thanx reader GS for this quote.

"Its better to have been nominated and withdrawn then never to have been nominated at all"

- Unknown, adapted (obv)

Update, reader HH sent this, it means alot to me.

And it seems to me you lived your nomination
Like a candle in the wind:
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in.

Goodbye Texas Rose,
From a country lost without your soul,
Who'll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you'll ever know.

Thank you so much to everyone whose writing.

THE WAIT IS OVER...ITS THE BIG DAY!!!

2005-10-26T12:47:00.000-04:00

Everyone in DC is tense with anticipation...well folks the WAIT IS OVER!! Remember, you heard it here first... I TURNED IN MY REVISED QUESTIONNAIRE!!!

UPDATE: HARRIET MIERS EXCLUSIVE!! MUST CREDIT HARRIET MIERS!!! ...thx reader AC, I didn't know that was the "netiquette."

UPDATE II, 10:47 PM ET: OMG OMG, how could I be so dumb...

the Senate Judiciary Committee has yet to recieve its updated questionnaire from nominee Harriet Miers We're told it'll get to them around 11 p.m. ET. Said NY Sen. Chuck Schumer in a statement at 8:45 pm: "This is another in a series of disappointments. The Miers nomination is suffering from a serious bout of delay, distraction, and disorganization and needs a dramatic turnaround."

I TURNED IN THE WRONG THING!! I'm not sure what was in those envelopes, maybe my taxes or something (yes, double extension and I'm still late, I've been busy OK!!)...but I was checking the blogs and I saw this and my heart went through the floor, the questionnaire's sitting on my desk. How could I be so dumb. Did Warren Burger ever do this?!! GRHRGGGG

GOTTA RUN, 13 MINUTES LEFT

ANNOUNCING...

2005-10-25T12:09:00.000-04:00

Its a petition!! Please sign it, I already did. Here's what it says.

Dear Whom It May Concern, in this case WithdrawMiers.org,

Hi! Its "The Undersigned." Here's the basic message, PLEASE TAKE DOWN YOU'RE WEB SITE. WithdrawMiers.org.

Here are SOME of the reasons why:

> It is NOT NICE, which means you shouldn't say anything at all.
> Its a Waste of Space on the Internet--crowded enough already, esp w/ everyone having a Livejournal!
> Harriet Miers is the only nominee we've got, so "love the one your with." The Supreme Court can't exist if there aren't Justices on it. This is really two reasons.
> Hi, this is a personal message from Harriet, not the whole Undersigned. It would mean a lot to me personally if you took it down, like as a personal favor. I am not the type to promise to rule different for different people, but if you do the right thing please know I won't forget it.
> Okay its all of us again. Honestly we can't believe you even put it up!!! But its past history now, the important thing is the future, please withdraw it.

So those are the reasons... Thanx!!

Sincerely, The Undersigned

So there you go!! I hope "you" will join "we the undersigned" and tell you're friends, because remember... there's no way a petition can be OVERsigned!!!

WE CAN DO IT!!

PS As you can see, there's a logo on the right, but if you make a better one please send it to me and I'll use it for sure. Also FYI you can go to www.withdrawwithdrawmiers.org, it comes right here.

VIDEO!!

2005-10-25T09:45:00.000-04:00

I think this is just great!!
Its from HarrietFanSRO (no website, sorry). THANK YOU!! XOX H

UPDATE 10/27--I took down the video its not appropriate anymore.

PATRICK FITZGERALD BLOG??

2005-10-25T09:44:00.000-04:00

Is it real. How do you find out.

CALL YOU'RE SENATORS ENTRIES

2005-10-24T17:52:00.000-04:00

Andy said not to blog but this is important, because I really believe that a Grass Roots "Call You're Senators" movement is the best hope. So real quick here's the rest of the entries. THANKS to everyone who sent them in!!!

This first one is from Shangri-Law Blog, and its dedicated to a good cause... Uncle Sam!

This logo is from from reader Ross McDevitt, see if you can get the reference!! Hint, its a movie.

Here is a logo from Jake Reif. I think my picture looks weird, like an Optical Illusion. Lovely writing tho. Thanks JR!

This one seems good until you look closely...it gets my blog wrong! And my name. So you cant vote for it, its really more an example of "what NOT to do." But its too late, the contest is over.

Here's a special one... Halloween Alert! "Scary-et Miers"!!

CONTEST RULES...ADVICE PLZ

2005-10-24T12:56:00.000-04:00

Hi from Questionnaire-istan...I'm trying to make up my mind about something. Does video count for the contest. The problem is that when I made the rules at the beginning, I didn't anticipate this situation. The original rules were just:

I need you're help to make a logo. It should have a picture of me, the name of the campaign (CALL YOU'RE SENATORS!!) and my name (Harriet Miers duh!!), and 202-225-3121.

So most people just sent in pictures, but one person sent in a video, which I love, but is it unfair to everyone else because they didn't know a video is okay? I think if I'd thought about it at the time I would have said "no video," b/c my intent originally was just pictures. But now that things have changed I want to add video. I don't want to be unfair. WHAT DO I DO!!!

This is driving me nuts, its totally distracting me from preparing to be a Supreme Court Justice!!

CONTEST...PROCRASTINATING, DON'T TELL LEONARD

2005-10-21T15:48:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone! OK I'm not supposed to be blogging, I have to work on my Murder Boards and my Questionnaire (and might I add, its going to be the best questionnaire ever , I should apologize to future nominees for setting such a high precedent! J/K LOL... if only...) . Anyway I'm taking a short break just have to remind you, today is the deadline for the Call You're Senators logo contest. You probably thought I forgot... no way Jose, I'm a nominee of my word!! Also I should explain about "Don't Tell Leonard," Leonard Leo is in charge of keeping me On Task. He's basically a lawyer.

Here are some of the most recent submissions. If you sent one and you don't see you're's (??) here, it means it didn't "make the cut." Either that or I haven't opened you're email yet. Basically if you haven't gotten a reply back from me I haven't seen you're email yet, there's alot. I'd just like to say up front, way to go to EVERYONE who sent one in, A+ for effort and A++ for creativity!!

Here's a few of the current batch. I don't know how to make it so that the writing goes right next to the logo, so my comments might be hard to understand, please bear with me.

As you can see, some of these are done in the "classic style." Very nice!!

In one I have a really big head, well I hope that's not a joke about being the nominee "going to my head" LOL

As you can see one of them is really creative, just like Anne Geddes. I don't want to bias you're votes but I think that one would not be appropriate in terms of me being taken serious as a Nominee.

As far as the one that says "Ignite... desire," its beautiful!! And it makes you want to learn more.

All in all, nice work!! There's more where these came from, I'll post as soon as I can. Just a reminder, if your still planning to submit (and I hope certain people are!!), the final deadline is tonight (Friday) at midnight, no exceptions. Now what if your on the West Coast. Good question. It doesn't make any diffarence, for you the contest started three hours earlier!!! Nice try tho...

Okay GO FOR IT!! Back to "Q-ville," population HARRIET!!!!

UPDATE: One of these says 1-900-HARRIET, that's NOT the real number, the number on it has to be fixed or its disqualified. Good catch reader HH.

GREAT DO-OVERS IN HISTORY

2005-10-20T09:51:00.000-04:00

Well by now you probably know that I have to "take a mulligan" on my questionnaire. Well my answer is bring it on!! Its like I've always said. There's no shame in getting something wrong the first time, the only shame is giving up!!! I may not get a Hole In One but a birdy is pretty good I'd say!

With that in mind, I made this list of great do-overs from history to cheer me up. Maybe it will cheer you up too!!

XOX HARRIET

The first pyramid was TOO SMALL. Did the Egyptions give up. No! They went ahead and made another one, plus a sphinx!!
Richard Nixon wasn't elected president the first time he ran. Either did President George HW Bush. But you know what they had in common. They took a mulligan and won!!!
Here's one thats particularly relevant to me: Dred Scott Decision. Alot of people dont realize but sometimes the Supreme Court makes a mistake, I've been reading about it, and then they can go back and overturn it. Just like my questionnaire!!
As my friends know, I'm not just a golf lover I'm also a bowler. Well bowling is the perfect example... even if you get a gutter ball the first time, you still have another ball in the frame and you can get a spare!

And needless to say, this is an INCOMPLETE list!! There's tons more, but obv I have to get to work on the questionnaire. Thanx everyone for you're letters of support!

IF I WERE A JUSTICE

2005-10-19T12:47:00.000-04:00

Okay first here’s some background. Especially if your wondering why its been so long since my last post. I was trying to put into words my thoughts about Specter and the 1989 questionnaire and everything, and honestly if I hear Roe V Wade one more time I'm going to announce that I'll just recuse myself. (Just kidding its important obv). And then I started to write a poem but it kept coming out really dumb. And then I had an idea for a song, like the Fiddler on the Roof song except it’d be “Abortion!” –but it’s a Hot Button Issue and I don’t want to be offensive. Also I couldn’t remember the tune.

Anyway the point is, I wrote this song, it goes to the tune of If I Were A Rich Man (which I’m not!!!).

If I were a justice
Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum
In my robes I’d biddy biddy bum
If I were a high court judge!
I’d… be a super jurist!!
Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum
If I were bum biddy bum confirmed
Yiddle-diddle to the Supreme Court.

I’d sign opinions with a heart on the “I”
Correcting old decisions that were wrong
But I’d never legislate from the bench!!!
And even tho I’d be the most junior justice
They’d make me feel like I belong
Especially that Souter, he’s a mensch!

If I were a justice
Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum
In my robes I’d biddy biddy bum
If I were a high court judge!
I’d… be a super jurist!!
Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum
If I were bum biddy bum confirmed
Yiddle-diddle to the Supreme Court.

PS Thanx Jack A for the “mensch” line but remember your not supposed to call the WH!! WE MISS YOU!!

NEW LOGO CONTEST SUBMISSIONS, "LOOKING GOOD"!!

2005-10-18T14:28:00.000-04:00

From Princess Sparkle Pony... cute =) but it seems like its more about you than about me.

Below, here's one from Jared Roussel, very professional Jared!!

And finally an entry from "beacher69," how much do you want to bet thats a fake name.

Thanx you guys for submitting... keep them coming, deadline is FRIDAY!!!

Also unrelated... in terms of all of these stories right now about me, dont believe everything you read... OK L8R!!!

CALL YOU'RE SENATORS CAMPAIGN--CONTEST!!

2005-10-17T10:44:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone!! I'm really excited!!! Here's why, I realized that its no use waiting around, its time to Make This Happen and you can help!! If you want something done you have to do it yourself, and so I'm asking for everyone to join in.

Announcing... the Call You're Senators campaign.

Step one is, I need you're help to make a logo. It should have a picture of me, the name of the campaign (CALL YOU'RE SENATORS!!) and my name (Harriet Miers duh!!), and 202-225-3121. Email the logo to me, harriet.miers at gmail.com. (at = @.) I'll put the submissions on my blog and have a Vote, best logo wins! After all its a democracy!! Here is an example I made.
Step two is we get everyone to post the logo and Spread the Word, and step three is I'm confirmed!!! Thats how it works in America, you have to have your voice heard if you want to have a say.

Okay ready, set, design a logo for the Harriet Miers Call You're Senators campaign!!!11

UPDATE: Good idea reader BB, its a Slogan Contest too. It doesn't have to be Call You're Senators. What should the slogan be?? Post in comments or email! We can do this!!!

NEW YORKER STORY ON BLOG...PRETTY GOOD

2005-10-17T09:57:00.000-04:00

So the New Yorker did a story the blog, with an interview we did on IM. And to be honest I was worried about how it would come out (BIAS). But now that its here I think its pretty good!! I've been doing Murder Boards for the hearings and I applied some lessons to the interview, like making sure you get out you're core message. Guess what my core message was.

Dallasharriet44: Do I get to see the story early? I PROMISE I won’t blog it.

Talk Of The Town: In a word, no.

Harriet Miers: O.K., then I won’t tell you how I’m going to rule in cases that come before the Court. [NOTE: THIS WAS A RUSE, I WOULDN'T HAVE REALLY TOLD HIM. - H]

Talk Of The Town: Bye, Harriet (a.k.a. Ms. Maybe-Our-Next-Female-SC-Justice!).

Harriet Miers: Well, I have to say, New York gets a bum rap—you’re a good ambassador! Unless you’re “the exception that proves the rule.” Thanks!!! Oh, one thing. TELL YOUR READERS CALL THEIR SENATORS TO SAY “VOTE FOR HARRIET!!” I forgot to say that before. O.K. good night.

Thats right, Call You're Senators. Today is my two-week anniversary as a Nominee, and I have to say, it was fun to start but sometimes its more like purgatory... if your calling Senator Frist please tell him to SCHEDULE THE HEARINGS!!!

(Note, the article gave away my IM name, which is annoying, thats my only complaint. It was dallasharriet44 but now I might have to change it, I dont know.)

Another note, Murder Boards are like a roll-play. You practice answering questions. LINK

A WHOLE NEW HARRIET!!

2005-10-16T16:05:00.000-04:00

I'm in Time Magazine!! Thats two weeks in a row, a "personal record". Not on the cover (yet!!) just an inside story... but its an inside story that tells the Inside Story!!

Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving from what they call a "biographical phase" to an "accomplishment phase."

Well its about time!! Enough about my biography, let's talk about my lifetime of accomplishment.

The White House's 20-person "confirmation team" will line up news conferences, opinion pieces and letters to the editor by professors and former colleagues

...not to mention a certain highly acclaimed blog!!! =D
Okay this part I dont get.

Lawmakers and staff contend that during her first round of courtesy calls, Miers had anything but a commanding presence, looking more like a prom date next to the confident Senators.

If anyone cares to remember, at prom its the boys who are nervous and awkward in they're Tux's and the girls who look beautiful!! If I can find my prom pictures I'll post them, but I think they're in Texas.

MIERS-BRIGGS TEST...(NO RELATION!!)

2005-10-15T03:55:00.000-04:00

If you are like me, you probably waste alot of time taking online tests of all kinds, even if you should be talking to Senators about their votes and cramming for your confirmation hearing. Well if you want to save time, there's good news. You can take the Miers-Briggs test in like five minutes!!

This is the test that tells you what your like, you get four picks. Its funny, most people think I'm an I but I'm secretly an E... pretty much S, DEFINATELY F...and I guess anyone on the Supreme Court definitely has to be JUDGING!! LOL

OMG BABY FEVER!!!

2005-10-14T14:01:00.000-04:00

Cutest credit card in the WORLD!!!

I just ordered it. (Obv the black bar isn't on the real one, I just added it to cover up the # so I don't fall victim to Identity Theft, I know it sounds paranoid but "10 million Americans are victims of identity theft each year.") I bet I'm going to have like the World's Best Credit when I'm confirmed, because the Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment.

I've been totally useless today, none of us are supposed to do any work that might create a Paper Trail b/c of the investigation so its like why are we at work in the first place?!!!

UPDATE: The Independant Women's Forum says "the Harriet Miers Blog!!! looks pretty darned sexist to me." So your saying that I only got a baby credit card because I'm a woman. Well isn't that sexist!!

DISCLAIMER--LETS PRETEND I PUT THIS UP AT THE BEGINNING

2005-10-13T17:52:00.000-04:00

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I forgot to put that up on Oct 3 ("cut me some slack" people, I'd just been nominated to the SUPREME COURT!!), but this applies to the whole blog not just from now on.

MY PHILOSOPHY

2005-10-13T17:22:00.000-04:00

Everyone is talking about "What's my philosophy." A good example, The Hot Line, which is kind of like The Note for insiders. This is from the Blogometer:

the WH and the RNC appear to be caught off-guard at the overwhelmingly negative response to the Miers pick. Mehlman was caught a bit flat-footed at times; on several questions, he could do little more than reiterate that she would explain herself at the hearings, that her "philosophy" and "character" were sound, and that they had to trust Pres. Bush's decision. ... Mehlman sought to quell concerns by promising that she would "lay out her philosophy."

Well I think this has gone on long enough!! Here's my philosophy, its simple really.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART!!!

Thats all there is to it!! OK that's all for now folks!!

(PS I really really want to talk about the Drudge Report thing but Dan says I have to withhold comment at this time as he put it... to people who have emailed about it, sorry but I really do have to witthold comment.)

HAPPY YOM KIPPUR!!!

2005-10-13T11:05:00.000-04:00

Its a holiday for the Jewish faith. One thing I love about our President is his commitment to Every Race and Every Religion, its an inspiration for us all to honor that. I made Yom Kippur cookies for my Jewish colleagues but its like everybody's sick today!! Nothing's worse than being sick on a holiday but wouldn't you know it.

PS Yes thats a Halloween tablecloth...what can I say, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!! LOL Hey do Jews celebrate Halloween?

CONFIRMATION STRAW POLL--PLZ ONLY SENATORS VOTE

2005-10-12T22:44:00.000-04:00

Okay this is just for US Senators, Im just trying to get a sense of the State of Play. Its Non Binding and it just takes a second. If your not a Senator, I'll know because I'll get more than 100 votes!!

Whats your vote, on confirming me I mean??

AYE
nay

view results

Thanx for your help everybody!! XOXOX

UPDATE, I think this isn't working... unless alot of Senators are FLIP-FLOPPING

MO DOWDY MO PROBLEMS

2005-10-12T12:04:00.000-04:00

Thx Ann Althouse, Maureen Dowd did a column making fun of me, at first I was mad because its all fake but then I realized its a joke.

Since there is no breathtaking Miers judicial record to pore over, I was eager to read more breathless Miers missives to a president she describes as the most brilliant man she has ever met. How could I get the notes from the White House, given how opposed Mr. Bush is to leaks? I called Scooter and Karl and they sent the secret documents right over.

August 2001 "Thank you so much for letting me bundle up and drag away the brush that you cut down today. And if I might add, Sir, I've never seen a man wield the nippers so judiciously. It was awesome! You are the best brush cutter ever!!"

Well Ha, Ha Maureen Dowd. Frankly if you'd done you're homework, you'd know I don't use words like "nippers"... not to mention, "judiciously."

LOL Nicolle said, "So Maureen Dowd is accusing you of being a superficial hack? Pot, Kettle, hello?"--get it, like a pot calling the kettle Black, their both black. Well at least Maureen Dowd is obv reading my blog.