Miers a la Molly Ivins

molly ivins has an insightful run-down on harriet miers this morning on alternet written in her own classic texas point of view - and nobody does a texas point of view like molly ivins (except perhaps jim hightower)...

Miers' church states on its website that it believes in biblical inerrancy, full immersion baptism, original sin and salvation dependent entirely upon accepting Jesus Christ. Everyone else is going to hell.

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[W]e are now beset by people who insist on dragging religion into governance -- and who themselves believe they are beset by people determined to "drive God from the public square."

This division has been in part created by and certainly aggravated by those seeking political advantage. It is a recipe for an incredibly damaging and serious split in this country, and I believe we all need to think long and carefully before doing anything to make it worse.

i don't care what bush says about harriet... i don't care what dobson or harry reid or tom coburn or kos or atrios or anyone else says... there are only two things that would qualify miers for a scotus appointment in bush's - oops, make that rove's - mind: fundamentalist evangelical christianity and unwavering loyalty to bushco... that she's a woman is only window-dressing... those two things, in addition to her lack of any judicial experience whatsoever, render her an unacceptable nominee... that said, i believe her confirmation will be easy and swift which is, in itself, a measure of the sad shape our country is in...

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