Miers op-ed
Scott Gerber
s-gerber at onu.edu
Thu Oct 6 11:40:37 PDT 2005
Mark is correct. There has been a typo in the subject line from the
outset.
SDG
Mark Tushnet wrote:
>The pedant in me finally noticed an oddity in the header on this
>thread: Ordinarily, "Miers's op ed" would mean, "The op ed by Miers"
or
>"The op ed Miers wrote [or had a staffer write]," but here it means
"The
>op ed about Miers" [which I think good orthography would present as
>"Miers op ed"].
>
>Mark Graber wrote:
>
>>Would we say this about the President as well. How many people,
>>conservatives in particular, believe that George Bush in 2000 was one of
>>the top 100 most qualified to be president (as qualifications are noted,
>>say, in the Federalist papers).
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>>MAG
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>>>>>Ilya Somin <isomin at gmu.edu> 10/06/05 1:18 PM >>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>As I said in my original post, I do not insist that "only the very best
>>possible candidate be appointed." I do however believe it's reasonable
>>to insist that the candidate at least be in the top few hundred
>>available people.
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Scott Gerber
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