Harriet Miers' Nomination - What is the End Game?

[Roland99]

http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/10/09/harriet-miers-nomination-what-is-the-end-game/


There's an odd mix of ideologies supporting and criticizing the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bill Kristol (of PNAC and Weekly Standard infamy) is against her

Conservative Pat Buchanan (paleo-conservative?) is against her

Evangelical, pro-life Christians are staunchly behind her

Certain Democratic leaders are defending her (in terms that she's a woman and shouldn't be criticized for being such.)

Some far-right wingnuts are also critical as she's an unknown and some are upset that the Propagandist has selected someone so close in his inner circle of yes-men and ass-kissers.


The running theme seems to focus on abortion, much like a running theme at the end of the 2004 elections focused on same-sex marriage.

Harriet Miers is being used to push a wedge issue to rile the right-wing base in a pre-emptive Rovian move for the 2006 mid-term elections. The GOP cannot win on ideas at this point. Over 2/3 of this nation feel the country is on the wrong track so they have to pull out the stops and catapault the propaganda in a thinly veiled (but quite damaging to America) get-out-the-vote move.

The Supreme Court is about far more than just abortion and abortion (in the shape of Roe v. Wade) will never be overturned. What is more important is that Miers is another pro-corporate piece of slime just like Janice Rogers Brown and all the other members of the White House inner circle (and a large majority of the current GOP leadership *cough*DeLay Inc.*cough*).

This nomination isn't about conservative values despite all of the spin and punditry being tossed about. This nomination is about protecting American corporations. That's the end game.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Chuck Schumer just said on "Face the Nation" that the democrats

will ask James Dobson to testify at the Miers confirmation hearings.

[Roland99]

2. Leahy and Specter intimated the same thing on This Week on ABC.

[PATRICK]

3. Another Bush judge

Simply it is having two guys MORE in the pocket in some way than either rehnquist(party stooge) or O'Connor(bedazzled Bush fan).

Conservatives who held their nose and sold their souls to the Bush dynasty are now forced to pay up. No. No ideologue judges, just Bush cronies, cronier than ever. It is not a matter of no new Souter. Ideology is still a weak commitment of the Bushes. it is a matter of someone who will actually do their bidding. Theirs and no one and no ideology or party above that.

I know this is the central Bush aim and, as usual, no one on any side wants to face that. It is the secret of their smarmy success, that all the other players thinks it is about them, about the divisions, the cores, the ideas and it isn't. Sorry Dobson, you've likely been sold a bill of goods for your tough hate ravaged soul. It is the good old fashioned autocratic dynastic takeover. Whther corporations will benefit or issue groups is of little importance to the chief goal, but of course the pattern is that all things bad that roil the populace will always be the destructive result. In the distracted misery the Bushes survive and thrive like deep rooted weeds.

Rome had its Caesars, we have the Bushes if this continues and it will ruin America forever unless we can stop their results by focusing impotently on all the sidebars. While people are "discussing' and "plotting" the Bushes simply get what they want and with a vengeance sealed in concrete, betraying all who thought to get something from them.

[Mist]

4. Yes! More popcorn! n/t

[jody]

5. Agree, the end game is Corporatism.

See Corporatism

[Roland99]

6. It's the new colonialism. It's why the U.S. intervened in Central. America

and in Iraq.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

7. Yeah, and it's another reason why we should vote against Harriet Miers

She's not only a Bush crony (who apparently knows some dirt on him and Rove) but also an unabashed defender of big businesses that are raping the environment at every turn. As an added bonus in rejecting Miers, we'll basically send Bush into a tailspin-- his fragile psyche can't take such a rejection, and he'll wind up getting drunk and making an even bigger fool of himself in press conferences.

That we have so many conservatives (strange bedfellows?) on board only makes the situation even sweeter, since Bush will be hit from both sides. This is our chance to take out this idiot for good. If *any* Democrat votes in favor of Miers, they can kiss their own reelection changes goodbye. We haven't had an opportunity like this maybe in decades.

[Griton]

8. She'll withdraw

Just wait, this week the Democrats will come around to oppose her. Then you have the right wingers like Santorum and Brownback who will not support her. She will be borked alive; thus, Rove will quietly whisper in her ear to withdraw and the Bush will have no credibility whatsoever. What a disaster for Bushie. Pass the pop corn

[win_in_06]

11. Is Bush as you suggest, really getting hit from both sides?

Or is he successfully applying the Clinton-Morris art of triangulation?

[SpiralHawk]

9. End Game: The Jeff Gannon Implosion

will have reverbs here there and everywhere if Fitzie indicts him or names him otherwise and we see that Miers gave Gannon his "press" pass to visit the Bush White House 200 or so times.

Meirs will get totally mucked up in the Plame mess, Gannon connection, spewage orgy of right wing treason hypocricy and humorlessness.

Peeeee Uuuuuu. It could happen. That's my pick for the end game.

[Roland99]

10. You think she was the one authorizing JimmyJeff's overnights?

[SpiralHawk]

12. Yuppers

as they say in the Great White North

[Roland99]

13. Wouldn't surprise me. It's like the White House is entrenching further and

further into a deep, dark, inner circle.