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Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 4 October 2005
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Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card

In the high stakes game of Supreme Court Hold ’Em, Dubya has made a decisive and bold, yet defensive move. Has has gone "all in" and nominated his former personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court. What better way to avoid jail for war crimes, profiteering and conspiracy. Appoint your own lawyer to the bench. A truly brilliant maneouver even if Alberto’s really disappointed. Bush’s cronies can stop sweating now.

ABC News: Who Is Harriet Miers?

"Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush’s personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief of staff before she was named counsel upon Alberto Gonzales’ transition to attorney general."

Having learned an important lesson from the Roberts nomination - that your judicial record can come back to bite you in the ass if anyone is able to actually uncover what that record is - Miers has no judicial (or legislative) record to peruse and scrutinize.

Miers could sail through a no questions asked confirmation process. The Democrats, having already approved many incompetent and unqualified Bush nominees, will have a real challenge finding a way to opposed this tabala rasa (blank slate). They might as well fold their hands now.

As an added bonus, Dubya has appeased his wife First Lady Laura by nominating a woman, which means that little Georgie’s got a big surprise waiting for him tonight when he gets into bed.

http://polunatic.blogspot.com/2005/10/bushs-stay-out-of-jail-card.html

Forum posts

  • Thanks for the re-posting and linking to this post.

    Polunatic

  • I understand that the real ’stay out of jail card’ rests with John Roberts who, as Chief Justice, can decide whether or not to let the impeachment charge stand. The American people had better reach down, find their "balls" (so to speak), and get this thing done. Otherwise, we’re in for nastier times than we’ve already had to endure.