Demonstrating his capacity to surprise the experts, Bush nominates Nobody
Per Tom Burka, Bush’s latest nomination has all the earmarks of a mystery wrapped up in an enigma that has confounded every analyst, left or right.
Next Bush’ll have Attorney General Gonzalez write a memo defining what procedures the Senate Judiciary Committee can legally use to extract the critical info from her. Send Paul Bremer in with a $9 billion petty cash account to supervise her development into a strict reconstructionist. Have Ken Lay drill her to prove she’s a reliable source of snake-oil, cementing her ideological credentials. And put a no-bid contract out on the lives of any Senators who don’t vote to confirm.
But two can play this game.
Her opponents can all sign Do Not Resuscitate orders, curl up into fetal positions and deprive themselves of oxygen, till their brain matter is so atrophied they lack any further power to reason. When roll is called, their lack of response will prevent a quorum, so no vote can proceed.
At least this is the standard response I can anticipate from Republican supporters and Democratic opponents, based on what most have done in the past 5 years. (See Tristero at Hullaballoo, for an excellent analysis of this point)
Harriet Miers deserves appointment to the Supreme Court simply because she’s so ‘Terri Schiavo’ that she’ll fit right in.
Update:
This just in from Faux Snooze:
“Conservatives want to see more evidence that she’s willing to take on the prevailing left wing ethos in our legal system,” said Gary Bauer (search), president of the Institute of American Values, a self-described nonpartisan group dedicated to the renewal of family values. “And so far we just don’t know enough to know that.”
My family values truth, creativity, responsibility, courtesy, compassion, teamwork, wisdom, trust, kindness and people who put faith in practice with humility. I fail to see anything we need to renew in my family. But if yours needs Post-It notes to remember how to be civil, I certainly favor lending you my pen, Mr. Bauer.
October 11th, 2005 at 12:41 am
With Bush appointing 210 judges over the past five years, how does Bauer keep a straight face when he says this stuff?
October 11th, 2005 at 11:41 am
One thing to be aware of regarding Harriet Miers is that, although she is up to her ears in the bull-excrement of the change Georgie’s dirty diapers operation, she is a very capable lawyer, and can be extremely persuasive. Of course, that has nothing much to do with being a supreme court justice. But she is quite able to belt out the usual lawyer babel.