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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
It's getting deep
My favorite fact clash in the nomination battles is the woe begotten tale of Manual "Manny" Miranda. We covered this back in May with a link to Salon:
before Manual Miranda was an aide to Bill Frist, he worked as a staffer for Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he used a shared computer network to access Democratic strategy memos on . . . George W. Bush's judicial nominees. ...[S]ome of the Democratic memos were leaked to the press, Democrats and Republicans alike condemned those who accessed the documents without authorization, and Miranda resigned from his job as Frist's top aide on judicial nominees.
Of course, on the right Miranda is something of a hero:
Liberal Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are threatening to subpoena Dr. James Dobson to require him to appear before the Judiciary Committee. They want to know what Dr. Dobson knows about the President's Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers. This is a highly selective inquisition. They were incurious when Judiciary Committee staffer Manny Miranda came upon computer files that showed collusion between liberal groups and committee members to block Bush judicial nominees. No subpoenas then, even though Miranda found memos that detailed liberals' purely political reasons for blocking Miguel Estrada: He was Hispanic and might become eligible for the Supreme Court. Were the liberal groups and their committee cohorts subpoenaed? Not on your life! Instead, Manny Miranda was fired.
Yes, Manny "came upon" computer files. Almost by accident! In the real world, people on the right and left complained of Miranda's grossly unethical behavior. In FRC-land, somehow the liberals managed to prevent the Republican majority from subpoenaing Miranda. In the real world, Republicans wanted the ugliness behind them as soon as possible. In FRC-land, Miranda was fired, even though he did nothing wrong. In the real world, Miranda resigned, then immediately moved on to a similar job in a less public role.
Tony Perkins is lying -- LYING -- about Manual Miranda. Lying about what he did, what he found, how he found it, and what happened to him afterward. Perkins should be ashamed.
