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Woeful prose.

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Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Woeful prose

When Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was head of the Texas Bar Association, she wrote a monthly column, President's Opinion, for the Texas Bar Journal.

"It is the largest body of public writing we have from her, and sad to say, the quality of thought and writing doesn't even rise to the level of pedestrian," New York Times columnist David Brooks writes.

Mr. Brooks gave many examples of Miss Miers' writing. Here's one:

"We have to understand and appreciate that achieving justice for all is in jeopardy before a call to arms to assist in obtaining support for the justice system will be effective. Achieving the necessary understanding and appreciation of why the challenge is so important, we can then turn to the task of providing the much needed support."

Mr. Brooks commented: "I don't know if by mere quotation I can fully convey the relentless march of vapid abstractions that mark Miers' prose."

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