Like A Duck

Washington Post: Miers backed diversity targets for Texas Bar---

As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.

The Supreme Court nominee's words and actions from the early 1990s, when she held key leadership positions as president-elect and president of the state bar, provide the first window into her personal views on affirmative action, an area in which the Supreme Court is closely divided and where Miers could tip the court's balance.
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White House spokesman Jim Dyke said that Miers's actions on the bar do not indicate a view on how Miers might rule on the big question before the Supreme Court, which is how far government can go to promote diversity.

"The best I can tell, this was a private-sector initiative to increase diversity, which is not the same thing as a government mandate of quotas," he said.(Emphasis added)

Well, it seems like the White House keeps telling us that Harriet Miers past shows she will be an excellent conservative. So, how is it that "Miers's actions on the bar do not indicate a view on how Miers might rule"?

And, does it really matter if it was for a "private-sector initiative to increase diversity" or "a government mandate of quotas" to increase diversity?

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .