Another analysis of the Harriet Miers nomination:
I think it's kind of cute that so many conservatives are expressing such angst at the choice of Harriet Miers this morning. Seems they thought that the Bush administration was about conservative ideology. Funny.
The Bush administration is about setting up the legal and institutional framework for a Republican majority for the next generation. That is Karl Rove's raison d'etre, beyond Junior, beyond conservatism, beyond ideology.
Harriet Miers is the official machine justice, a made woman, the one whose only committment and loyalty will be to Karl Rove and George Bush. I'm sure they would have preferred Alberto Gonzales but he is too much of a known quantity to easily finesse the varying political requirements within the base. She will do just fine. She is their creature. Her purpose on the court is to assist the Republican party in any way necessary, not to advance conservatism.
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Explain, please.
I used to walk around singing "Whoa Nipsey Russell" for Roam all the time, but I never knew Nipsey Russell was a real person, I thought it was just a made up name. Several years later I was listening to a Jazz show on the CBC. When the announcer said "and that was Nipsey Rusell..." I went into hysterics, and I couldn't stop laughing long enough to explain to the people I was with why it was so funny. The more I tried to explain it, the harder I laughed.
When the announcer said "and that was Nipsey Rusell..." I went into hysterics, and I couldn't stop laughing long enough to explain to the people I was with why it was so funny.
Heh. I love it when stuff like this happens.
Wasn't Nipsey Russell on
Hollywood Squares
a lot? </too lazy to Google>
Maybe both
yes, both. His latter career was being on game shows and being funny. He was also in The Wiz (scarecrow) and Car 54, Where Are You?
lest you think that I am a trivia repository, they talked about him on the radio this morning.
Harriet Miers is the official machine justice, a made woman, the one whose only committment and loyalty will be to Karl Rove and George Bush.
I do tend to wonder how long this sort of loyalty would last once the "made woman" became a Supreme Court Justice. I mean, yes, there's loyalty based on believing in the cause of your superiors and all that. And then there's loyalty based on hitching your wagon to someone else's star. Once the robes are on, the second kind of loyalty wouldn't exactly mean much. What are they gonna do, fire her?
ETA: by the way, I'm loving the legal analyses in this thread.
I actually don't think I knew he was a musician -- I thought he was just a comedian.
Sue's Nipsy experience is my Bix Beiderbeck. Though I thought it was Bix Spiderbeck.
I hate to be that kind of superficial person, and appearances shouldn't matter as much as brains, but at the moment, I'm less concerned about her lack of judicial experience and more concerned about when she's going to get an eye tuck.
