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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Unoriginalist

It seems this speech that Miers gave in 1993 is what did her in...

By George Neumayr
The American Spectator


"I can't see this nomination going forward," says a Judiciary Committee staffer to TAS. "The hearings would be so ugly." What will sink Harriet Miers, he predicts, is the "evidence that she can't write and think."

Fresh evidence of this appeared in the Washington Post on Wednesday. The Post reported on a speech Miers delivered before the Executive Women of Dallas in the 1990s in which she made a vague stab at addressing popular controversies. The speech's reliance on stale and mindless bromides is stunning. Sandra Day O'Connor could have given the speech, though surely she would have given it a little more sophistical polish.

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