Not All Bad
Bush's recent Supreme Court Nominee is so blatantly cronyish, that even his allies are calling it such. She is by no means even the 10th or even 20th most qualified CONSERVATIVE, let alone person for the job. And while running the Texas Lottery is a lot more impressive than old Brownie's run as head of the Arabian Horse association, it still isn't enough to make her nomination pallatable. I just don't trust Bush any further than I can throw him (and with my bad knee, I shouldn't be throwing anyone). When he said, "Trust me," the day after the nomination, well needless to say, I'm worried that the Supreme Court will some day find a way to make everyone who doesn't vote Republican a non-citizen.
However, there is a silver lining in all of this: conservatives are rather pissed off, too. When Roberts was nominated, there was quite a bit of rumbling along the lines of, "This guy is relatively un-known. Sure he worked for Renquist and Reagan, but things he wrote at those jobs were for those people. What is HE like." This lady, Miers, is even MORE unknown. She's Walter Ambercrombie to Robert's Franco Harris by comparison. (for those lacking proper Steeler's history background, try she's Adalai Stevens to his FDR) And this is making the extreme right (the ones who are every bit the extremist as the terrorists we're supposedly fighting in Iraq but I fear far more while on my own soil) absolutely treasonous. It's one thing to rumble that you're not so sure about what The Village Idiot has gotten them into now. It's anotherthing to come out and say point blank that you doubt his judgement. And that's exactly what they're doing now.
I think with the FEMA fiasco as headed by Brownie, it's safe to say the Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lemming Bush Voter are finally getting a clue that he just might be a rather shitty judge of character. He has demostrated a willingness to risk the lives of Americans for the sake of advancing the career of a friend. Iraq and the Haliburton scams should have been enough to demostrate that he'll do the exact same thing to advance a friend's stock portfolio. The bottom line is, other's are catching on. Couple that with the fact that Miers might not make overturning Roe v. Wade her first order of business as a Supreme Court Justice, and you have a bunch of Whacko Right Wingers with their skivies in a bind.
An interesting side note on this was what I heard on Air America last night. Randi Rhodes said that Busha dn other neo-cons do not want Roe v Wade overturned because it's far too great a political weapon to pull out any time they need to roll out the Religious Right Zealot vote. An interesting thought. I'm not sure I totally agree, but it's still interesting to think about.
The point being, if something as mind-boggling as the Miers nomination can manage to piss off a few conservatives and shove a genuine wedge in the Right Wing Mind Control movement, then perhaps there really is a silver lining in every cloud.
However, there is a silver lining in all of this: conservatives are rather pissed off, too. When Roberts was nominated, there was quite a bit of rumbling along the lines of, "This guy is relatively un-known. Sure he worked for Renquist and Reagan, but things he wrote at those jobs were for those people. What is HE like." This lady, Miers, is even MORE unknown. She's Walter Ambercrombie to Robert's Franco Harris by comparison. (for those lacking proper Steeler's history background, try she's Adalai Stevens to his FDR) And this is making the extreme right (the ones who are every bit the extremist as the terrorists we're supposedly fighting in Iraq but I fear far more while on my own soil) absolutely treasonous. It's one thing to rumble that you're not so sure about what The Village Idiot has gotten them into now. It's anotherthing to come out and say point blank that you doubt his judgement. And that's exactly what they're doing now.
I think with the FEMA fiasco as headed by Brownie, it's safe to say the Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lemming Bush Voter are finally getting a clue that he just might be a rather shitty judge of character. He has demostrated a willingness to risk the lives of Americans for the sake of advancing the career of a friend. Iraq and the Haliburton scams should have been enough to demostrate that he'll do the exact same thing to advance a friend's stock portfolio. The bottom line is, other's are catching on. Couple that with the fact that Miers might not make overturning Roe v. Wade her first order of business as a Supreme Court Justice, and you have a bunch of Whacko Right Wingers with their skivies in a bind.
An interesting side note on this was what I heard on Air America last night. Randi Rhodes said that Busha dn other neo-cons do not want Roe v Wade overturned because it's far too great a political weapon to pull out any time they need to roll out the Religious Right Zealot vote. An interesting thought. I'm not sure I totally agree, but it's still interesting to think about.
The point being, if something as mind-boggling as the Miers nomination can manage to piss off a few conservatives and shove a genuine wedge in the Right Wing Mind Control movement, then perhaps there really is a silver lining in every cloud.
posted by RauluaP at 12:53 PM
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