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Too close for comfort. It's somewhat reassuring when a large and growing segment of the population recognizes that it's unseemly for a president to fill a seat on the Supreme Court with his nanny:

[Harriet Miers's] demure exterior, however, cloaks a tough will and an uncommonly close relationship with Bush. In the Oval Office and on the road, Miers has spent more time with him than perhaps any aide except Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. On Sept. 11, 2001, she was flying on Air Force One as it sped the president to the Midwest and back after the terrorist attacks.

In June 2003, when Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare that "major combat operations" had ended in Iraq, Miers was part of a nucleus of aides who stayed overnight with him on the aircraft carrier. She is with him often at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., and is a regular weekend visitor to the presidential retreat at Camp David.

So on 9/11/01, after Bush was finished reading The Pet Goat, Miers was right there to minister to his needs while ricocheting around the United States. That was probably the day he made the most momentous decision of his presidency: to link those events to Iraq.

And Miers was there! So she must be qualified. QED.

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