“We spent 1,200 hours together and I calculated that we addressed more than 6,000 agenda items, and I never knew how she was going to vote until she voted,” said Jim Buerger, who served with Miers on the City Council from 1989 to 1991.
Buerger said Miers was something of a nonentity on the council.
“She didn’t express any views, she didn’t campaign for anything and I’m unaware of any cause that she championed,” Buerger said. “This is a lady who keeps close counsel with herself.”
But, uh, she’s a a good bowler:
“You know, she’s a very gracious and funny person,” said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003. “I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific.”
In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. “She is a very good bowler,” he said. “For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins.”
Update 10/16 — Even Republican senators found her notable mostly for “banal chatter”:
Lawmakers and staff contend that during her first round of courtesy calls, Miers had anything but a commanding presence, looking more like a prom date next to the confident Senators. Republicans said she seemed unwilling or unable to answer questions about whether she viewed particular cases as important precedents and said she offered little beyond banal chatter.