Keep your friends close

[shunn]

Laura and I, like many of you, are listening to the president nominate his White House counsel, who has never served as a judge, to the Supreme Court, and we are feeling angry and nauseated.

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[bad-bad-zoot.livejournal.com]

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No one has ever accused me of being temperate or even-pawed, but even I would make a better Supreme Court justice than that wrinkled-looking hack the hairless president just picked. I could hack up a hairball with a more developed sense of fair play. I mean, what did he do, close his eyes in a roomful of cronies and throw a dart?

I would say I'm disgusted, but this is just the kind of studied incompentence I've come to expect from hairless leaders.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

I mean, what did he do, close his eyes in a roomful of cronies and throw a dart?

Exactly, Zoot. And the crony who was quickest to figure out how to cover up the resulting death and put a legal plan into action won the nomination.

What outrages me almost as much as the blatant cronyism itself is the sense of restraint and fair play the media is bringing to this issue. Won't one goddamn commentator say what's obvious -- that the president is once again rewarding loyalty to his particular brand of moral corruption, and that it's this very same practice that took the teeth out of FEMA and helped make Katrina a much worse disaster than it would otherwise have been.

[bad-bad-zoot.livejournal.com]

Won't one goddamn commentator say what's obvious...

Maybe one: "In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met," David Frum noted the other day at National Review Online. "She served Bush well, but she is not the person to lead the court in new directions -- or to stand up under the criticism that a conservative justice must expect." From Salon.com's War Room.

[steelbrassnwood.livejournal.com]

Zoot, you read Salon? It's written by hairless people, you know...

[bad-bad-zoot.livejournal.com]

Yes. Imagine a magazine edited by cats:







That's it. Except for the scratch-n-sniff ads.

[steelbrassnwood.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the general pattern seems to be sycophantic blathering about how nice the emptyhead's new clothes are, finally followed by a discussion of his unattractive nakedness long after the damage has been done. I'd like to smack Colin Powell and Judy Miller and both Clintons and Al Gore and all the others whose timely opposition could have saved us from some of these messes. Shrub is a fool, but at least it's due to genetic circumstances, not deliberate lily-livered choice.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Blech. I just had a good weekend, and the news has to go and spoil my mood. I don't understand why people can't see this as cronyism.

(I decided this a long time ago, after a re-read of the David Eddings universes, but I wanted to make a fantasy novel where all the honorable people in power DON'T automatically put their best friends in positions of power just because they are bestest friends. Because upon that re-read of DE, I actually started thinking about the small incestuous power webs that go on in the Belgariad and the Mallorean, and the number of times somebody gets away with something stupid or illegal or ethically questionable because they are in the inner circle.)

[readwrite.livejournal.com]

As I've commented elsewhere, there is probably much to dislike about Miers--but many distinguished Supreme Court justices, both liberal and conservative, have had no judicial experience when nominated to the Court.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

So I've been reminded ad nauseam by pundits throughout the morning. Posting now, I would strike that clause. The lion's share what made me feel sick during the announcement this morning was the cronyism. The effects of that practice have been vividly illustrated by Michael Brown.

Strange bedfellows

[chrisogle.livejournal.com]

Looks like it isn't just Dem's that think the Prez has gone too far:

"...Bush has no right to say 'Trust me.' He was elected to represent the American people, not to be dictator for eight years."

Who said it? Michael Moore? Nope. Al Franken? Nope. It was none other than the conservative insult comic, Ann Coulter!

http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=159561&loc=/opinion/columns/anncoulter/2005/10/05/159561.html

I has taken years, but the cracks in the vast right-wing conspiracy are beginning to show. :-)