Harriet supported diversity

Oh Harriet, you sound almost progressive. Did W. know about this?:

Miers, the first woman president of the Texas Bar, vowed in her first interview with the Texas Law Journal as president to "be inclusive of women and minorities."

During her tenure, she championed the cause of increasing the number of female and minority lawyers in the bar's own leadership ranks and in law firms across the state, writing that "we are strongest capitalizing on the benefits of our diversity."

As you can imagine, the right wingers hate that:

"Those are quotas," said Roger Clegg, the general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative group opposed to affirmative action. The fact that Miers "did not create the quota systems but only perpetuated and endorsed it doesn't make it less disturbing," he said.

NOTE FROM JOHN: Well, using that logic, her very appointment is a quota since Bush said he was intent on appointing a woman. And the religious right/conservative point of view as to who should be the nominee is a quota since they're insisting it must be a conservative.