the mystery of miers
I don't know a damn thing about Harriet Miers, the Supreme Court Justice nominee, and neither does anyone else...and that's a plus. It's been a day since Bush made the announcement and the blogosphere has been abuzz with commentary from the left and right. The short story is that the left is cautious and in wonderment at such a weird call by the president...and the right is pissed as hell. Pat Buchanan cries that Miers' qualifications are "non-existent", William Kristol is "disappointed, depressed, and demoralized", Rush Limbaugh has called it a selection "made from weakness", and even Operation Resuce has announced that they will not support Miers.
Why the discontent? Because the right is seeing what the left has seen all along (finally) and that is that their sacred Bushie is determined to anything and everything to help his friends and supporters with little or no regard to the poplation of the United States, his party, or prestige of the office. In Miers, he has nominated someone who may very well be the least qualified candidate for the Supreme Court in recent history. In Miers, Bush has turned inward, yet again, and returned to a familiar form of nepotism that just recently led to disatrous results in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina (remember Brownie?). In Miers, the right is screaming, Bush has given up a chance to put a known conservative entity on the Court to further ther cause -- the only defense the Bush administration giving for her mysteriousness is a chorus of "trust us" from various officials.
Bush's numbers have been slowly sinking over the past few months, to levels that haven't seen fifty percent since last Spring in most cases. The 40-some percent that have been holding on have been the hardcore right-wingers and "christians" that propped the man back into office last November. They are pissed, and this is good. Very good. The Pat Buchanan's of the world had given up on Bush long ago, but now it's time for the fanatic pro-lifers (I reserve the terms for those who vote largely on the pro-life stance of candidates, few other issues coming into play) to get pissed off, as well as other large segments of the Republican base. That may be because they see Bush's choice as a lost opportunity, a sign of weakness, or good ol' croneyism -- the fact is that the right is going to see some fragmentation from this for at least the next little while...and for that, the left should be happy.
Why the discontent? Because the right is seeing what the left has seen all along (finally) and that is that their sacred Bushie is determined to anything and everything to help his friends and supporters with little or no regard to the poplation of the United States, his party, or prestige of the office. In Miers, he has nominated someone who may very well be the least qualified candidate for the Supreme Court in recent history. In Miers, Bush has turned inward, yet again, and returned to a familiar form of nepotism that just recently led to disatrous results in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina (remember Brownie?). In Miers, the right is screaming, Bush has given up a chance to put a known conservative entity on the Court to further ther cause -- the only defense the Bush administration giving for her mysteriousness is a chorus of "trust us" from various officials.
Bush's numbers have been slowly sinking over the past few months, to levels that haven't seen fifty percent since last Spring in most cases. The 40-some percent that have been holding on have been the hardcore right-wingers and "christians" that propped the man back into office last November. They are pissed, and this is good. Very good. The Pat Buchanan's of the world had given up on Bush long ago, but now it's time for the fanatic pro-lifers (I reserve the terms for those who vote largely on the pro-life stance of candidates, few other issues coming into play) to get pissed off, as well as other large segments of the Republican base. That may be because they see Bush's choice as a lost opportunity, a sign of weakness, or good ol' croneyism -- the fact is that the right is going to see some fragmentation from this for at least the next little while...and for that, the left should be happy.
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