Snow on Miers
During his announcement of the imminent resignation of Harriet Miers, the White House counsel who Bush nominated to the Supreme Court a while back, Bush spokesman Tony Snow had this to say:
She is beloved not only because she is a really good human being, she’s
an extraordinarily wonderful human being, but also somebody who is a
very careful and scrupulous lawyer, a ferocious defender of the
Constitution, and somebody who was also deeply loyal to the president,
and just somebody who is a delight to work with.
I’m having a difficult time reconciling the “deeply loyal to the president” and “a ferocious defender of the Constitution” bits. That’s a paradox if ever there was one.
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