I have to say, there's a certain symmetry to it. Bush was placed in office by cronys in the Supreme Court, and now he's making sure his exit will be just as gentle as can be the same way. Meanwhile, from our "Black is white, night is day" category, John "Hindrocket" (again: his self-chosen nickname) of the Powerline republican blog, posts...
First, the charge of "cronyism" that we are hearing in many quarters is unfair. The fact that Bush knows Miers personally and trusts her isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing.
Bush needs to keep the party's conservative base aggressively in his corner. He also needs to show that, notwithstanding his mostly-superficial second term problems, he can get what he wants from the Senate when the chips are down.
Emphasis mine. To recap: Bush is the first president in 200 years to lose a city. He launched a war that a majority now believe was mistaken and badly planned and has now cost the lives of almost 2,000 soldiers.
If those are superficial second term problems, I wonder what the boys at Powerline would consider a signifigant one? Oh right, I know. A man getting his cock sucked. I guess if it happens to you rarely, you would consider it a signifigant event.
PAUL adds: ...I think it's cronyism in the bad sense when the president reaches down to the second tier to pick a friend even if she is qualified. I do concede that it's better that Bush picked one of his cronies than one of John Kerry's.
God, you can "hear" the fear and terror in their "voice" can't you?
"Uh...uh...Bush chose somebody who's not one of us and isn't really as qualified as we might like but..but...(there has to be some way I can still cling to my illusion that he is a great man)...but....ahhhhhh! John Kerry! The boogeyman! Ahhhhhh!"
ETA, again: Writing for Right Wing News, John Hawkins (he who separated the Democrats into groups) responds to a suggestion that conservatives should just trust Bush by asking:
why should conservatives trust George Bush after the terrible judgement he has shown on so many issues?
It goes without saying that Bush is worse than Lyndon Johnson in the big spending department. In his entire time in the White House, he has never even vetoed a single pork laden bill. Then there's the enormous Medicare prescription drug benefit which will create a massive expansion of government and add a trillion dollars to the debt next 15 years.
Since his election in 2004, Bush has spent months senselessly flogging Social Security when almost everyone acknowledges it isn't going anywhere. Even on the war in Iraq, an area where many conservatives agree wholeheartedly with his policies, it has been frustrating to watch Bush twiddling his thumbs instead of making a real effort to buck up public support for the war.
You know, things like the above give me just the teeniest glimmer of hope. Because it makes me think right-wingers are waking up to the fact that agree with his policies or not, Bush is quite simply hands-down an incompetent.
It doesn't make me feel any more compassion for those who voted for an incompetent rather than betray their precious ideology, but it does give me a glimmer of hope.
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