Reply #6: Careful What You Wish For...Could This Have Been Staged?

[KharmaTrain]

It's been said here before and the timing now seems to put up a couple flags on this end.

Note that booooosh nominated Miers after Rove's name came out about the Fitzgerald investigation...and the pick makes many think KKKKarl was too pre-occupied with saving his own bacon to have had much input...OR...that Harriet was to serve as a media distraction as this investigation wound down.

The timing...on the verge of Turdblossom and others getting up fron and personal with the criminal justice system...and at a very low point in this regime's popularity could be a diversion rather than a failure.

By nominating Miers, someone in that White House had to realize there was going to be questions...especially from the "strict constructionists" who have their own short list they've been trying to ram through the White House (Roberts was on that list...but far from the top). By pissing off this group, it created a distraction of infighting while the true ugly revelations of Rove, Libby and now Chenney are starting to pour out. Now that we're at the end of this process, Miers is no longer needed.

Next phase is the "rejuvenation". After all the bad news, this regime will need to circle the wagons and rally the base. No finer way of doing this for boooosh is to put up an "in-your-face" conservative that will unite his goons...and also bolster his sagging poll numbers and to try to minimize any damage from the Fitzgerald investigation.

Not only did I predict this nomination would never see a confirmation hearing (damn...I was hoping to have seen Dobson hauled to testify)...and I see this process now grinding to a halt as the combination of the scandals and the congressional clock will make it hard to push through a nomination and confirmation before the end of the year. That could put this seat still up for grabs into next year and then all bets are off.

Cheers...