Miers
My cold goes away, and my depression comes back. If I'd know that was going to be the trade-off, I'd've stuck with the cold. At the drugs for that are fun and inebriating. Sigh. I hate my stupid, stupid brain and its misfiring neurotransmitters. Bastards. Anyway--
More on WASPs later. For right now, let me say this about Harriet Miers:
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Did you get that? Let me say it again:
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That's really all there is to be said, isn't there? Far as I can tell, she got the nomination because, well, she's a lawyer and George Bush likes her. Those seem to be her primary qualifications. As to what kind of Justice she'll be, I think her record speaks for itself, and it says, in no uncertain terms:
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If I weren't depressed already, I'm given daily reasons to rest my head against the keyboard and quietly pray for a gas leak under the house to take the pain away.
More on WASPs later. For right now, let me say this about Harriet Miers:
...
Did you get that? Let me say it again:
...
That's really all there is to be said, isn't there? Far as I can tell, she got the nomination because, well, she's a lawyer and George Bush likes her. Those seem to be her primary qualifications. As to what kind of Justice she'll be, I think her record speaks for itself, and it says, in no uncertain terms:
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If I weren't depressed already, I'm given daily reasons to rest my head against the keyboard and quietly pray for a gas leak under the house to take the pain away.
posted by Yr. Hmbl. & Obdt. | 11:26 PM
2 Comments:
Upon further reflection, I wonder if Miers isn't the judicial equivalent of a clay pigeon. She's so obviously unqualified that one wonders whether she's been thrown up in order to be shot down, at which point--having denied the president his first pick--the committee will have exhausted its power and will have to take whomever gets thrown at them next. Such would be my guess if, say, Rove or someone smart is behind this.
The other possibility, one that causes me to smile with bemused irritation, is that Bush is finally, *finally* showing in the plainest, most undeniable of terms that he just doesn't understand what he's supposed to be doing as president. That he does not understand the job at all. At all. He's not 'stupid,' he's not 'corrupt,' he's not 'incompetent'--well, OK, he *is* incompetent--he's just completely and utterly unable to fathom the requirements of the job. He doesn't understand what *his* job is, and he doesn't understand what *her* job will be if she gets the nod--which I wouldn't bet on just yet. He really is like one of those inbred idiot kings you used to get in the Medieval era, whom everyone had to bow and scrape to, but who couldn't do more than play with a wooden horsey and drool.
And Democrats? Feh. Can't do anything with 'em--when Barbara Boxer is the feistiest of the bunch, you know you're dealing with a party on the verge of collapse. The problem with the Democratic agenda is that it's complicated, multi-focused, and therefore both confusing and boring. It can't "sell." Clinton ran and won on a "Bush sucks" and "You want a hug?" ticket. Best the Dems could do is find someone cuddly at this point, and that they seem unable to do...
She will get confirmed because Rove, et al., will break heads if she doesn't. But on to more important things: I think let's NOT pray for a gas leak under the house, shall we?
SCG
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