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By: David

David — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:14:04 +0000

Hmmm… elsewhere I said, “…Were Machiavelli pulling the White House strings, I might suspect the Miers nomination to have been a stalking horse, effected to stiffen the spine of some single-celled Republican Senators.

But surely no one in the White House—not even Karl “Satan Incarnate (to Demoncraps)” Rove—is that Machiavellian… are they?”

It’s possible, but for anyone within the “Stupid Party” to be smart enough to float a ploy like that is nearly unimaginable.

heh

Though one could wish it were so…

I could dearly wish for a strong majority of Republican congresscritters (in both houses) to both grow some stones and some brains, but it seems like some pretty far-fetched science fiction to think that could happen in my lifetime.

*sigh*

But *accedie* is a “deadly sin”…

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:30:55 +0000

Well, this is what the Federalist Patriot said not long ago. They have changed their opinion since then but it is plausible. I do not necessarily agree but it is as good as any other conspiracy theory.

The Patriot’s legal analysts immediately conjectured that the only logical explanation was that the Miers nomination might be part of a macro-strategy to rally Mr. Bush’s conservative base around a negative, then, when opposition reached a fever pitch, Miers would withdraw her name and the President would nominate a compelling and credentialed conservative such as Brown, Owen, Edith Jones or Michael Luttig. The base would then be reinvigorated, singly-focused on that nominee’s success

By: Kelt

Kelt — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:25:41 +0000

Craftier, eh? Elaborate?
You think it was some sort of trickery?

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:19:18 +0000

I don’t think he did it either. I figure this is as good a scenario as some of the others that have been passing around. As you know I don’t necessarily think she was a bad choice I think it was a bad choice to pick his personal attorney.

However, since this week is conspiracy theory week with spys outed and and all that stuff I figured I could add one to the mix. Wonder how far it will go?

By: The Wayfarer

The Wayfarer — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:53:30 +0000

While I am not a big fan of many of our President’s policies and actions (failure to secure our borders, increasing government spending/waste, etc.) I am a big fan of him personally. One of the reasons being I think him incapable of doing what you suggest. Not because he isn’t smart enough, cagey enough or anything like that, but I can not believe he would put a close personal friend through such an ordeal. I don’t even believe he would put someone he didn’t much care for through such an ordeal.

No, for whatever reason, President Bush made a bad choice this time around. As I have previously stated, I think it was a desire to get someone through the process without a fight. With no background to speak of, he thought it would be difficult to find anything not to like about Miers. Wrong!

To quote a wise man “Fighting not good. But if you must fight, win.” Now is the time where he must fight and I hope the President realizes as much. The leftists in the gov’t and their allies in the mainstream press (Kennedy, Reid, NYT, CNN, and their ilk) will not be happy no matter what he does so Mr. Bush may as well appoint a true conservative/originalist. When the filibuster is invoked, as it will be, the Senate must then use the constitutional option. To paraphrase Al Davis, the leftist opposition must go down, and they must go down hard.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:42:33 +0000

Hi,
Your trackback did not go through to my site, can you do it again?
Thanks