Harriet Miers Seeks “Missed Connection”

And no, we’re not talking about her failed Supreme Court bid. A Wonkette operative recently sent us this celebrity sighting of the White House Counsel, which we originally planned to use in our next collection of Wonk’d items:

“In Pentagon Row, walking from Starbucks to Teeter to grab hangover-rememdy/breakfast makings Sunday morning. As I passed the Red Door spa I noticed a grey-haired woman wearing a business suit and trench coat, odd given that everyone else was either out in running gear or sweats.”

“I look up to give a courtesy nod and realize it’s one-time SCOTUS nominee/Ozzy Osbourne Doppleganger Harriet Miers! Homegirl looks EXACTLY the same in person as on TV, down to the unmistakable black eyeliner and red lipstick. I tried to smile and considered saying something, but Hattie looked pretty busy. Besides, what was I going to tell her — that I thought about dressing up as Harriet Miers for Halloween? Dubious.”

But then we decided this sighting deserved a post of its own, after coming across this Craigslist posting on Missed Connections, from a woman seeking a man she spotted in Pentagon Row, on Sunday morning:

I was meeting my friend (the redhead) outside of Harris Teeter in Pentagon Row on Sunday morning. You were walking right behind her and as I hugged her, I briefly caught your eye. A little later, we saw each other again at Starbucks where I was drinking my coffee, but you left so quickly. …and what could say…? You were carrying a Bed, Bath and Beyond bag. I’d love to have coffee with you sometime. If you think this might be you, drop me a line.

You think we’re kidding, right? Oh, ye of little faith! We even know who the redhead friend is: Ann Veneman, former Secretary of Agriculture and longtime Miers pal!

Harriet, we know that your losing Nathan Hecht to Priscilla Owen broke your heart. But there has got to be a more promising way to meet eligible men than Missed Connections!

Earlier: The Harriet Files: Her Lost Love?
Special Report! Harriet and Nathan and Priscilla and Us

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SPECIAL REPORT! Harriet and Nathan and Priscilla and Us

Wonkette operatives have turned up an interesting fillip in the Harriet Miers-Nathan Hecht-Priscilla Owen bizarre love triangle: “The Harriet effect.” Speaking of the mid-1990s , when Owen first joined Hecht on the Texas Supreme Court, our operative reports:

If Owen and Hecht were at an event and Miers would show up, there were frequently scenes with Owen snarking at Hecht and stomping out, in full view of many, with Hecht left to calm [Owen] down.  Some Texas judicial observers said you can actually chart the “Harriet fights” by the few times Owen and Hecht didn’t vote the same way.

Hecht’s political alliance with Owen has been well-documented. In 1995, “Texas Lawyer” reported that Hetch and Owen campaigned for the Court together in 1994, so much together “to the point that they refused to participate in a Texas Lawyer candidates roundtable unless both were present and their opponents were absent.” After each gaining their seats, in 1995 they “voted together more than any other pair of justices, agreeing on the result in 91 percent of the court’s decisions and sharing the same opinion 88 percent of the time.”

And what of the “Harriet effect”? Our Nexis skills are only as good as our hangover will allow, but we did discover that the Hecht-Owen alliance took a precipitous dive in the 1995-96 court year, with Owen agreeing with Hecht only 78 percent of the time, again, according to Texas Lawyer. Where was Harriet? Serving as chair of the Texas Lottery Commission (sez the WH) and lobbying Bush to veto a bill prohibiting the Texas courts from capping lawsuit awards (from AP). She would be spending an awful lot of time in Austin…

By 2002, the Owen and Hecht seems to have smoothed things over or come to an “understanding” or reached cloture or something: The two voted together in 93 percent of cases, forming a hard-right conservative bloc that has liberals in Texas tearing their hair out to this day. Happy ending, indeed. — WONKETTE

Miers Lobbied Bush on Lawyer Fees in 1995 [AP]
Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen [TPJ — pdf file]

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The Harriet Files: Her Lost Love?

Curiouser and curiouser: Harriet Miers’s one-time squeeze, Nathan Hecht, also used to date would-be SCOTUS nom and left-wing boogeywoman Priscilla Owen. Say this about Hecht, he has a type. From Texas we hear conflicting reports about the sizzliness of the hookups. One correspondent contends that Hecht and Miers didn’t date so much as take each other to dinner: “I clerked for the Court during one of the terms that he was on it. Seeing them together, it was hard to imagine (both difficult and nauseating) them being intimate because both seemed so stiff.  (And not stiff in the fun way.)” Another operative insists that it got (ahem) ugly, and that Owens and Miers had a “catfight” over their hunk of manmeat, though it’s unclear who won. Did either of them fight like a girl?

Judgeship Confirmation Line Grows [LAT]
Harriet Miers — pro, part 1 [World Magazine Blog]

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