The Miers withdrawal is lose/lose for BushCo

[DancingBear]

It is a given now that he will have to nominate an arch-conservative to appease the base.

However, when we ask ourselves where these arch-conservatives will come from the answer is (of course) from within the Bush inner circle.

You know, Rove, Cheney, Libby - the folks who are about to be INDICTED??

Bush has nowhere else to turn for a nominee, and I am betting that whoever he chooses will have more than a few ties to the prisoners-to-be.

The Dems in Congress will have a field day with the whole "culture of corruption" thing, and if they filibuster they will have a good chunk of the American populace behind them.

Screw the Repub base on this one - all they're doing is digging the hole a little deeper.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Yes, but I think Bush wants Gonzales, not pushed into an uber-Bork.

[DancingBear]

2. Gonzalez will be tortured in the hearings

Bad pun, to be sure, but if the fool nominates Alberto then, as stated, the Dems will go after his torture memos like pit bulls.

And if any Abu Graib photos come out beforehand...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Yes, that's why it's lose/lose for Bush whether Gonzales or conservative.

They're all conservative, of course, but the hard conservatives think that Gonzales is pinko liberal.

[DancingBear]

4. How's that saying go again?

Oh yes - "Never get in the way of a perfectly good train wreck." :)

[Beetwasher]

5. I Don't Think It's A Given He'll Appease the The Christo-Fascists

He's so mad at them right now he's pissing nails, and a mad Chimpy, is a vengeful, vindictive Chimpy. And it's a vengeful, vindictive Chimpy who's brain is under indictment and therefore he's stomping around w/out a leash. Under such circumstances it's quite likely he'll do something even more monumentally stupid than nominating Miers was in the first place.

[DancingBear]

6. And that, my friend, is the beauty of the thing

I myself have NO idea what he'll do -it's probably predicated on whatever sycophant is in his ear at any given time.

Just watch, though, if he tries (in his mind, anyway) to go moderate. Reid already has a winning strategy for that - let the right go ballistic (again) and sink it on it's own.

If he goes hard right, it will be someone with ties to the PTB's (prisoners-to-be0, and we know what will happen with that.

Hee-hee - "what we have here is failure to communicate."

[Beetwasher]

7. I Know, It Is Beautiful

But it's also a bit frightening...Who knows what he'll do when (and it is WHEN not IF) he goes off half cocked and lashes out.

[DancingBear]

8. Oh, now you're giving me visuals

"A drunken Bush walks up to the podium, and nominates Colonel Sanders to The Supreme Court. 'I, like most Americuns, value the mil-it-hair-ee'..."

[Beetwasher]

9. LOL!

He's probably tossing empty liquor bottles at some poor lackey as we speak. "You! Lackey! Shtand shtill sho's I can hit you! And get me shomeone to nominate quick!"

"But sir, how can I get you someone to nominate if you want me to stand still so you can hit me?"

"SHUT UP! Did I tell you to talk?!" *SMASH*

[DancingBear]

11. Perfect!!

I can see it, I can just see it... :thumbsup:

[gkhouston]

10. well, if he goes to the far right, I do think we'll have a filibuster

on our hands. The WH is incredibly vulnerable right now, and if the Dems and less rabid Repubs ever intend to make a stand, this would be the time. If he doesn't go to the far right, he won't have trouble with the Senate, but the uberconservative fringe will self-combust. :popcorn: