The Miers Ploy

Posted at 9:19 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2005, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush.

Immediately fllowing the news that Bush was “reluctantly” accepting Harriet Miers’ request to withdrawal her nomination to the Supreme Court, Andrew Cohen of CBS instantly opined that a great political episode had just unfolded before our eyes.

Was Harriet Miers ever a legitimate Supreme Court judicial nominee, or did she step up to the plate when her president (her boss) needed her? Did Bush present Miers as his nominee solely to let the nominee fail (with help from his base allies) and timed it so it would mute the devastating news of the indictment of White House officials?

Bush had assistance from both sides of his conservative base (Dobson supported Miers, for unknown reasons, and Bauer despised her) and his political opponents (the democrats decried she didn’t have the credentials). As a result, Bush has now nominated an judge with excellent qualifications and a hard-line Scalia-type conservative in Samuel Alito. This is exactly what the far right wanted; they just needed to play politics to get it.

Have the liberals been upstaged once again by the politically crafty conservatives in what can only be considered be as “beltway theater?” Quite possibly.

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