Re: Ann Coulter loses it over Miers too
Steven L. Robinson wrote:
But this leaves unanswered the question of WHY. Miers may not be qualified to sit on the SC, but from all appearances she can be counted on to vote with ‘Scalia and Thomas.on all the important issues. So why would folks like Coulter care? (Coulter’s reasoning that the SC is where you put ivy league conservative lawyers is really strained). The fact that she was once a Democrat is also irrelevant as almost everyone 60 or older in the South and Texas used to be a Democrat. The only sensible explanation - largely speculative at this point- might be something larger than the Miers nomination itself - an attempt by some on the ideological right to take their distance of Bush (surely that is what Coulter and others, such as George Will, seem to be doing), but why? Are they trying to avoid being burned by an iminent scandal brewing in the White House or, more likely, are they sensing upcoming policy shifts in the Administratio! n not YET patently visible to the rest of us? Don’t be optimistic as a “Grand coalition” of the GOP and Dem leadership probably will not be anything to cheer about.
Congressional Republicans are acting like they want to put some distance between themselves & Bush. Rats, sinking ship?
And if Fitzgerald has something up his sleeve, things could get mighty interesting.
Doug