Frank Rich: The Faith-Based President Defrocked

[understandinglife]

October 9, 2005

The Faith-Based President Defrocked

By FRANK RICH

TO understand why the right is rebelling against Harriet Miers, don't waste time boning up on her glory days with the Texas Lottery Commission. The real story in this dust-up is not the Supreme Court candidate, but the man who picked her. The Miers nomination, whatever its fate, will be remembered as the flashpoint when the faith-based Bush base finally started to lose faith in our propaganda president and join the apostate American majority.

Though James Dobson, America's foremost analyst of the gay subtext of SpongeBob SquarePants, was easily rolled by Karl Rove and dragged back into the Miers camp, he's an exception. The pervasive mood on the right was articulated by Cathie Adams, president of the Texas branch of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. She told The Washington Post: "President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God."

This is a sea change. If anything, Ms. Miers's record of opposition to abortion (a contribution to Texans United for Life, a leadership role at a strenuously anti-abortion church) is less "unseen" than that of John Roberts, whose nomination aroused no protest on the right only three months ago. The difference between then and now is a startling index of the toll taken by a botched war and hurricane response on whatever remains of Mr. Bush's credibility. The continuing inability of the administration to accomplish the mission in Iraq and of its post-Brownie FEMA to do a heck of a job on the Gulf Coast has inflicted collateral damage on its case for Harriet Miers.

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This Saturday is supposed to bring new victories on both these troubled fronts: Oct. 15 is the day that Iraqis vote on their constitution and the day that the president set as a deadline for all hurricane victims to be moved out of shelters. Chances are that the number of Americans who still have faith that the light is at the end of either of these tunnels is identical to the number who believe Harriet Miers is the second coming of Antonin Scalia and that Tom Cruise has found true love.

Link:
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/opinion/09rich.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

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Peace.

[sarcasmo]

1. WWFSMD

[RevCheesehead]

2. Dobson = PNAC.

Otherwise, he'd be howling with everyone else.

They've all finally discovered that he doesn't give a shit.

[understandinglife]

6. "They've all finally discovered that he doesn't give a shit." Precisely.

If you are not "a have" or a "have more" neoconster, you are a chump as far as Bush is concerned and

- he is more than willing to let you rot in prison without being charged of a crime

- drown in sewage

- take a plane ride to Egypt or Pakistan or ... and have someone torture you until you die

- vaporize you and your children and call it collateral damage

- pretend that he gave a shit about Terri Shiavo when all he really cared about was keeping the base voting for more vast sums of 'defense and homeland security dollars' so that the no-bid contracts to Halliburton and Bechtel and Blackwater mercs flow ....


Peace.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Cargo Cult Republicans are waking up too.

[understandinglife]

9. Oh, and ....

:hi: Rev!!

How are things in KOEBer land ;)

Check your PM when you have time.


Peace.

[welshTerrier2]

3. Rich and Kristol on are C-Span (live) NOW (7 - 8 pm et)

just tuned in ...

[Neil Lisst]

4. Frank Rich is on target, and he's on CSPAN now

I report, you decide.

Frank Rich, NYT writer. With Brian Lamb.

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my progressive political cartoon
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst

[kweerwolf]

5. Loved this quote ...

"President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God."

Perhaps *'s followers has dicovered that not only does he have feet of clay, but is solid clay from the neck up.

[Lexingtonian]

7. I haven't heard such...blasphemy...in five years.

What ever happened to that "Man Of God" bit they were always throwing around?

They just didn't quite figure out why God had sent them a messenger with horns and a tail and smelled of sulfur at the time, did they....

[cosmicdot]

10. that Man of God ... this guy

just a few of RoveWorks Media Creations

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. They've finally figured out that their sainted george

is really the Master of Ceremonies of the film "Cabaret"...

Money, money, money, money...

[Octafish]

12. Harry's got plenty of brights...impeachment insurance.

Making Sense of the Miers Nomination

By Robert Parry

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/100605.html

EDIT: Harry's got the "brights." I don't.

[understandinglife]

13. 70 comments at dKos on Frank Rich's latest:

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/10/8/21265/6523

as of 2320 PDT, Octboer 8, 2005.


Peace.