Why the Miers nomination mystifies me... (rant)

[FormerDittoHead]

It's just that I'm just used to the Reichpublicans being so... COORDINATED. I mean, the talking points are faxed Saturday night and EVERYONE is CHANTING them on Sunday - EVERYONE...

So many things have been tooled and framed BEFORE "release". With the sales tax thing they're floating trial balloons, but so many other things didn't go through that.

Everything has been so polished, so packaged. Up to Katrina not ONE thing the President has done been "wrong" or in anyway not the BEST solution by ANY Republican... They ALL agree on EVERYTHING except, perhaps, when they try to move the goalposts FURTHER to the right...

I AM inclined to believe that Miers is a "straw man" to be taken down in an effort to allow other Republicans to distance themselves from any potential negatives about Bushco's administration which seems to be quickly coming down the pike.

Again, however, this is from the group that makes "no mistakes" and while the polls didn't buy it, they didn't break their pattern of media manipulation, lack of responsiblity and framing even with Katrina....

Of course, the polls are now bad for Bush, but I don't see the whole Miers thing to be a strategy which would fit in with this aforementioned "distancing" effort. After all, the only objection from the right about her is that she's not ENOUGH of a freeper, and it's HELPING to make Bush to look like an idiot...

The only other thing I'm thinking of is that Rove really was coordinating the administration (politically, Cheney's busy on the gov't contracts) but that Rove's current troubles are really effecting his ability to 'run' things. He was probably a control freek, unable to delegate, and now that he's busy with other matters, the whole thing's coming down like a house of cards...

This is all guesswork however. I'm not inclined to believe in the "reverse psychology" theory because I don't think they're that smart to pull it off.

Putting aside real theory work, is there anyone else out there just STUMPED as to how ATYPICAL this is for the right?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

1. Cronyism

If you study this administration they reward loyalty. They've become their own branch of Republicanism apart from the conservatives. This group is obsessed with Power.

[0rganism]

2. Three predictions

1. Miers will be confirmed, over the objections of both the religiously insane and the judiciously conscious alike. Repubs will fall into line eventually, and Dems will roll over as usual. The confirmation hearings will be embarassing at times, but mostly boring as hell and full of Robertsesque sidestepping.

2. The rightwingnuts should be laughing with glee, because Miers is going to be the most malleable, ultra-conservative sockpuppet justice since Scalia first inserted his fist into Clarence Thomas. I have no doubts that she'll be reliably fascist in every respect, another toy for Antonin's amusement. The most hilarious thing about this nomination is how far over the line the nutjobs have gone when she's been their perfect fit all along.

The one the theocrats should have been concerned about is Roberts. He wants to be the power broker, and may well moderate his opinions just to achieve that effect. Roberts is going to turn out more like a Kennedy than a Rehnquist, but without the personal integrity (such as it is) of either. He's far more of an opportunist than an ideologue.

3. Bush's picks for this court have (correctly) alienated certain circuit court judges nationwide. One objection the conservapundits have leveled that I can't help but agree with is that there were plenty of qualified fascists already serving as federal judges, with their one potential shortcoming being their unproven loyalty to the Bushistas. Now dubya owes them big time, and he'll be looking to pay them off somehow.