I have just read kid oakland’s recommended diary and some of the comments over at kos.
Number one: Please go read it!
Number two: There’s really no number two, but the diary and comments lead me to this position – and I hope to get you riled up too: How does Bush have the nerve to make this express nomination?
More below:
His closest staff and advisors are embroiled in a scandal that involves national security. It is not unlikely that one or several of these staff may be impeached. It is also quite likely that Bush is involved in covering up what is evidently a crime within the WH. Impeachment and prosecution may lie ahead for many of the usual suspects. On this background, it is utterly inappropriate for Bush to proceed with any SCOTUS-nomination. Is the nominee a friend of Bush – or one who can be trusted to toe the party line regardless of issue?
And what’s the rush? Sandra Day O’Connor has not expressed particular impatience regarding her retirement. Surely, she can wait until the grand jury finishes its investigation in October. By then, we’ll have more clarity on the legal status of WH-staff.
No SCOTUS-nomination until the grand jury finishes its investigation!
Has the RWCM made the connection? Is he nominating his administration’s potential furture judges?
Anyway – does anyone know the average time between resignation/incapacitation/death of SC judges and the following presidential nomination? Here, we’re clocking less than 3 weeks!
Thanks for the tip to read KO’s diary! Yours is great too!
Thanks Susan.
I had a couple of beers this pm and it’s a bit incoherent. I forgot to stress how this is simply a continuation of unethical behavior by this administration.
But as someone commented in Booman’s thread; maybe we need to keep our eyes on the big picture. The DSM-Iraq-Plame axis. Put this on the back burner, unless we can connect this to it all as one big enchilada.
Cheers.
kid o’s diary is really good. As usual.
I think though, that this nomination is directly because of the Rove thing, and the low polls he is pulling among even is supporters. It’s an immediate sop to stop them crying and to stop the bleeding on the right.
I’ve wandered around right wing blogs when they were discussing the SCOTUS nomination, and one theme all through them is… “we’ve put up with this and that, we’ve been quiet through this thing and that thing, all because Bush said he’d give us the courts. If he fails to do that, then everything is over”.
In one form or another, they’ve explained why they will put up with incompentency, off the charts government spending, torture, failure at war, death, destruction, criminality… anything that BushCo does… as long as they get the courts.
Freaky.
I agree with this and I agree with KO, but I do not believe that there are more than 4 or 5 democrats who will stand up and say this:
I question his judgement. We don’t trust this president and his administration.
And those who will KEEP saying it until the investigation is over are even less than that.
WE can say it all we want on blogs or streetcorners, but until we have a critical mass of people in own positions of leadership who will say it and keep saying it, we’re done for.