Reply #20: I saw someone spout that theory just after the holidays to explain

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bush's lackluster and politically inept response to Katrina (not to mention morally bankrupt and telling). Some commentator theorized that there was anger between the two sides - perhaps Rove against neocons because the neocons came up with the whole Iraq thing years before and implemented it horribly - while Rove/Bush had a thirty year plan to implement. It was just a theory. Because no WMD were found and the intel was spoonfed. Theory also said that instead perhaps neocons were mad at Rove for leaking in the Plame affair. But that seems wrong - tonight - since it looks like Scooter and perhaps Cheney were the original leakers. So easily could be wrong on all counts.

But the intellectual neocons are the furious ones re: Miers. At least at first. They run xtian, gay-hating, female-dispowerment people to win elections - but they don't want to dine with them or have them on the court. They just want to control them once the election is over to implement Utopia.

She certainly was a slap in the face to 20 neocon type conservative lawyers who each had been hoping to make the court.

Don't know. Just guessing.