Formerly Bush's personal lawyer in Texas, Miers came with him to the White House in 2001 as staff secretary, the person who screens all the documents that cross the president's desk. She was promoted to deputy chief of staff before Bush named her counsel after his reelection in November.
From the Washington Post's June profile of her. Regardless of people's feelings on the nomination, it's clear that Bush considers himself above reproach—he won his second term, and he'll nominate whomever he pleases, and do whatever he likes. And he likes his cronies and bootlickers something fierce.
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