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[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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[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.