Friday, October 7

A Time To Gloat?

"Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, plans to make a fourth appearance before the grand jury next week and prosecutors have told him they can make no guarantees he won't be indicted.
The outcome could shake up an administration reeling from criticism over its response to Hurricane Katrina and the indictment of House of Representatives Republican leader Tom DeLay of Texas on charges related to campaign financing."
And then there's the matter of his latest supreme court nomination...
The wacko right is revolting (this pun was intended), threatening to destroy what's left of Bush's presidency because this nominee may not be "conservative" enough to suit the Holier-Than-Thou crowd. Right on! Sic 'em!
One of the really hysterical aspects of this comedy of errors is the administration's attempts to mollify the religious right by pointing to Ms. Miers' religiosity. Not so long ago the Bush League was scolding anybody who had the temerity to ask whether John Roberts' Catholicism would affect how he ruled on abortion or the death penalty. The Catholic Church officially condemns both. Methinks Mr. Bush is once again speaking out of both sides of his mouth with a forked tongue.
One thing that you have to grudgingly admire about him is his chutzpah. They say that a good quarterback has to have a bad memory when it comes to interceptions; don't let your memory of an interception kill your confidence. Bush stood up there and urged us to trust his judgement and accept a nominee that very few people know very little about. What example of good judgement can he point to in order to justify trust in his judgement? His initial assesment of Vadimir Putin, after looking into his eyes, is something that they would prefer we forgot. His great friendship with Vicente Fox is pretty strained due to misunderstandings and unmet expectations.
Some yahoo from Texas tells us that he's prayed with her; and that qualifies her to serve on a secular court where her job would be to uphold freedom of and from religion


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