Miers Withdrawal
By now everybody knows about this, and I reckon no one is too surprised. I just want to go on record as saying that I'm worried about it. I predicted that Bush would nominate a hyper-conservative for this position after his uncharacteristically rational nomination of Roberts, and was kind of surprised by the Miers nomination. I thought that, facing huge problems and with his popularity plummetting, Bush would seek to rally his base by nominating...oh, Judge Roy Moore or someone like that. He's not going to get the center back behind him, so it seems that the last thing he should want to do--politically speaking--is alienate his base. At any rate, he missed one opportunity to do that, and they certainly won't let him get away with it a second time. So I expect somebody really bad this time. I was hoping that Miers would squeak through, thinking that an unqualified possibly-centrist was better than a qualified hyper-partisan like, say, Scalia.
The long and short of it is that I think we're screwed now.
By now everybody knows about this, and I reckon no one is too surprised. I just want to go on record as saying that I'm worried about it. I predicted that Bush would nominate a hyper-conservative for this position after his uncharacteristically rational nomination of Roberts, and was kind of surprised by the Miers nomination. I thought that, facing huge problems and with his popularity plummetting, Bush would seek to rally his base by nominating...oh, Judge Roy Moore or someone like that. He's not going to get the center back behind him, so it seems that the last thing he should want to do--politically speaking--is alienate his base. At any rate, he missed one opportunity to do that, and they certainly won't let him get away with it a second time. So I expect somebody really bad this time. I was hoping that Miers would squeak through, thinking that an unqualified possibly-centrist was better than a qualified hyper-partisan like, say, Scalia.
The long and short of it is that I think we're screwed now.
posted by Winston Smith at
4:47 PM
4 Comments:
Word, Azazel.
If Bush nominates a crack-pot (we'd be LUCKY to get Roy Moore!), it's a golden opportunity to crystalize the essential values of the Republican paryt (which are not, actually, that popular with Americans) in the public mind in the lead up to the '06 elections. And there's a good chance that the Democrats could defeat this crack-pot (do you think that Senate moderates in swing states up for re-election like, say, Lincoln Chaffee, are going to be able to vote to end the fillibuster on behalf of a right-wing nutjob?). Now, the utter ineptitude of the Democrats in the past raises concerns about their ability to pull this off, but the fact that the chance to do so exists must not be ignored.
I'm thinking LeftAmerica should go for it. Put our ideas, passions, sympathies, plans and prescriptions out there, and let the American people/electorate decide who should lead this once and future great nation into the Second American Century.
Unless we think one American Century was enough, and we should have a French or Chinese or Islamist or Kumbaya Century instead. I don't know what we think about this, but I'm willing to learn.
Or unless we think the American electorate is too stupid to get your self-evident evidence. Nah, that's silly.
I say fly our flag, show our colors, and don't let any ol' wussies hold us back. Hillary/Dean! Sharpton for Secratary of State. Chomsky for DoD. Moore for MiniTruth, Franken for Morale Officer.
We gotta clear these lame centrists like WS out of our path. Don't dream it, be it.
In 2009, WS will look back at his Hamletude and laugh. By 2011, after we've straightened the world out, he will be gratefully giving us a Lewinsky for keeping progressivism safe and legal.
(So will I, even if it's to myself. We rock, dude.)
Word, T.
I'm halfway to your side already.
Talkin' left here, and first step is getting rid of all those mushy Democrats like WS. The republicans can wait.
Just lettin' my freak flag fly...
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