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October 03, 2005
Miers
Definitely one of the most bizarre nominations I've ever seen especially only weeks after another crony appointee botched the federal relief effort after Katrina and then blatantly committed perjury in front of the partisan congressional hearings last week. One of the big differences between the Clinton Administration and the current one is that Clinton's crony appointees wound up in the dark recesses of the Commerce Dept. or HUD where they couldn't do a whole lot of damage. Bush's wind up on the front lines.
Personally I think she's just a sacrificial lamb put out there to get rejected so the Democratic Senators would feel obligated to get the second nominee through. Judging from the reaction of the right-wing blogs today, though, Bush may have miscalculated. It looks like the Republicans may be the ones to kill her nomination. Of course, they tend to think anyone who doesn't think like Roy Moore is unacceptable. Gonzalez was Spanish for Souter. Now Miers is old white lady for Souter.
Posted by Half-Cocked at October 3, 2005 09:59 PM
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