Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Curveball

I've recently been sent the letter the RNC sent out after the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Here is the key paragraph:

President Bush selected Ms. Miers after embarking on a thorough and deliberate thought process. This confirmation however promises to be much more contentious than the confirmation of Judge John Roberts. Before Ms. Miers was even announced many Democrat groups said they would oppose her. They have no interest in giving Ms. Miers a fair hearing or vote. They are promising to throw every punch, make every accusation and pressure every Senator to oppose this nominee no matter what her qualifications may be. We have to be prepared to counter their actions and that is why Harriet Miers needs your help.

Pretty generic. In fact, the whole letter is pretty generic. That leads me to believe that the letter was written in advance without knowledge of who the nominee would be. The RNC was expecting someone else. The right wing of the republican party are extremely pissed about this nomination because they wanted a fight. Bush didn't give them that. He threw them a curveball. Was the decision to nominate Miers a so tightly kept secret that not even the RNC was let in on it? It looks that way.

The only other possibility is that this letter was sent out to feed the less in touch right wingers red meat that doesn't actually exist. I would guess your average recipient of this e-mail doesn't know justice A from justice B. You tell them the Democrats are out to get her and they believe it whether it materializes or not. I doubt this is the case though due to the amount of backround chatter coming out of Senate and even White House staffers. If the insiders are pissed, then Bush really stepped out of the circle to make this pick.

The far right is even talking filibuster, but that isn't going to happen. They are about to get a first hand taste of the main tenet of the Bush administration. It's not conservatism, it's not theocracism, it's fuckuism.

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