October 27, 2005

Harriet Miers is out. What next?

Well, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday it looked like Harriet's going to fight it out, today, she's down for the count. What gives?

What looked like a handgrenade, actually turned out to be a handgrenade. And for a while it looked like Bush's team found the pin and was going to manage to put it back in, when the grenade went off.

So, now that they are trying to pick themselves off the floor, what do you think they will come up with? Will Bush listen to reason and put up a centrist for nomination (see Roberts... sort of) or will he become Limbaugh's bitch and nominate some extremist to the bench? Hmmm...

I have another hypothesis for you. This may be a little far fetched, but I wouldn't put anything past Boy Genious / Turd Blossom. Try this on for size:

The Administration knows that Fitzgerald will come out with the Plamegate investigation findings any moment. Given where all the fingers points to, the Bush team decides to have Miers "quit" just in time for a second nomination to be put forth when the news cycle is taken with talk of top level criminal indictments. And so, switch the news cycle back to the nomination, taking the pressure off the VP and all the rest of the crooks. Too far fetched, you say?

We'll see.