White House Shifts Its Lobbying Strategy
White House Shifts Its Lobbying Strategy
She wasn’t nominated because she is a woman. She wasn’t nominated because she is an Evangelical Christian. She wasn’t nominated because she has been the President’s personal attorney. She wasn’t nominated because she seemed unobjectionable.
She was nominated because she was qualified.
The White House, caught off guard by the intensity of the conservative backlash to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, plans to try to refocus the debate over the next week onto her legal qualifications and away from issues such as her religion, senior presidential advisers said yesterday.
Acknowledging that the campaign for Miers had slipped out of their control, the advisers said they will seek to validate her credentials for the high court through a series of media appearances, newspaper opinion pieces and letters of support from various people who have known the White House counsel during her previous career as a corporate lawyer and bar association leader in Texas.
And opposition to this highly qualified nominee is “cynical.”
“I’m a little surprised that they came out of the box so cynically,” White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said
Cynical? I dunno, I always thought of myself more as the elitist, sexist type. But no, “cynical” fits. I’ve been voting Republican for 25 years, supporting an unpopular war, and putting out a Conservative messsage on this blog because I am “cynical.” Card’s got my number. It’s all been a sham. I’ve been laying in wait all these years, “cynically” pretending to be a Conservative, just waiting for that right moment , when I could leap to denounce Bush’s highly qualified, and only coincidentally female Hallmarking Evangelical, nominee.
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