Whoever told President Bush that it was a good idea to tell the press that one of the reasons he nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court was because of her Christian beliefs was an idiot. I'm actually inclined to believe that the President ad-libbed it himself since nobody else in the White House is stupid enough to tell him to say such a thing.
Well, Scott McClellan, White House press secretary, couldn't run fast enough to get in front of the cameras and say, "Oh no, no, no. He didn't mean to say that. He just mentioned how it is a part of who she is. He never thought about her religion for a moment when he nominated her. Really really really, cross my heart and hope to die."
Why? Because the last thing the president wants to do is make his nomination of this lady unconstitutional by claiming that she passed some kind of test for religious qualification in order to get the nomination.
President Bush may not be an 80-I.Q. retard, but getting elected to President, having been president for 5 years, and then allowing such a rudimentary tenet of our government's process "slip his mind" means he really is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to scholars of government.
Well hey, at least President Bush didn't go out there and say, "I nominated her because she isn't a Muslim."
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Heck... maybe he realized what a kerfuffle he had caused among the Republicans by nominating her, and decided to go out and torpedo her nomination before any confirmation hearings could take place. You never know.
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