I love how earnest the news stories are on CNN - not even a whisper of a smirk decetable in this article about President Bush and Harriet Miers trading birthday cards back in the day. In 1997 she gave him one with a big ol' sad-faced puppy, writing "Dear Governor GWB, You are the best Governor ever -- deserving of great respect!" She also assured him that he was "cool" -- which she hoped his daughters appreciated. He wrote her back a card (30 days later -- damn, she was older than him again!!) warmly thanking her for her friendship and imploring her to "never hold back your sage advice," following up with the ever-classy: "No more public scatology." (No doubt with the unspoken parenthetical: "And stop bringing your RealDoll to White House events!")

In any case, yes, the correspondence does "suggest" a "warm relationship" - thanks CNN. It also "suggests" the tone used on the hilarious faux-Harriet Miers blog, which turned out to be kind of prescient/able to see back to 1997 birthday cards.

The above pic is from this past weekend's SNL, courtesy of "Reliable Sources" -- Howie Kurtz, demonstrating that he really isn't all that up on pop culture, asking Frank Rich "What does it mean when "Saturday Night Live" comes out against you, Frank Rich?" (uh, that they're finally catching up?) Rich said that it contributes to Miers' "brand name recognition," and also that "it makes you long for Dana Carvey, who would have just been fantastic in the part." Which just goes to show how out of it he's gotten -- Rachel Dratch was a PERFECT Harriet Miers (with there-first props to Wonkette); Dana Carvey was an excellent Church Lady but that acerbic, uptight, twangy quality would be all wrong here. That's Fishbowl's story and we're sticking to it. We love Rachel Dratch!

Oops, we just noticed that it's actually an AP article. Ah, well, original analysis still stands.

Records suggest warm relationship between Bush, Miers [CNN]