You are a candidate for a prestigious job, a position many people are claiming you’re not qualified for. The search committee gives you a questionnaire. In an effort to silence your critics, you go the extra mile and do a thorough job responding to the questionnaire, right?
Not if you’re Harriet Miers:
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was asked by the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to clarify some of the answers she provided this week in a questionnaire their panel sent to her.
At a news conference, Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, ranking Democrat, described many of her written responses as “incomplete” and “insufficient.”
“Please prepare a supplement to your responses” in a number of areas “with as much detail, particularity and precision as possible,” they wrote in a letter to Miers.
Ha. CNN reported that she had some one-word answers to some of the questions. Huh? This woman is wanting to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, right? It doesn’t seem this is the wisest strategy to get there.