Is That Legal?

From the linked comments, my favorite is:

Karl Rove should go to jail for THIS, not Plamegate

Agreement that Karl Rove should go to jail? I feel the nation healing.

That was my fave too.

I enjoyed "Texas can go to hell" and "We need a filibuster". I guess comments like that are only bad when a liberal makes them.

Yep, we're wondering if this some kind of a twisted loyalty test for people who have supported the arrogant fellow in the WH for the last couple years.

Believe me, it's not his stellar ability or all of his policy positions we adhere to. The prescription drug benefit and the epic education boondoggle make us choke, not to mention the tax cuts when combined with the Transportation Bill spending orgy. But his policy positions are, or at least prospectively were, better than the Dems' positions. We aren't stupid, we just don't have any better candidates to pick from.

My read is Miers is either a sacrificial pick, on the belief that the Senate Dems can colorably sink one nominee, but not two in a row, and Luttig or similar is in the batting circle; or, it's a very arrogant pick, and Bush is assuming that his base wont fracture. It might surprise many, but ideological hackery isn't really the hallmark of most of Bush's judicial picks. Strong academic and/or professional qualifications are the usual pre-requisite, and then obviously some legal ideological considerations enter into play. Miers doesn't really meet either the merit qualification, or as far as I can tell the idelogical test - though she certainly does appear to pass the Bush absolute personal loyalty test.

This is teh suck.