Harriet Miers was nominated so Bush can now appoint a white male

[LynneSin]

Major lightbulb just came on when I started to think of who Bush might appoint now for the open slot.

There is historical significance to this open slot since the person who gets the nomination will be replacing the first woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Bush's first appointee - John Roberts was a white male. So there was pressure for Bush to nominate someone other than a white male, but there probably wasn't anyone qualified for the Bush Regime that wasn't both white and male.

So they tossed in Harriet Miers who's only possible qualification for the seat was the fact that she was a woman. Now that Miers has withdrawn, the Bush Regime can appoint a white male to the position and justify it by saying "we appointed a woman but you all complained about it"

[ananda]

1. Tweety is touting Ted Olson!

Ugghhh.

[soleft]

2. What about Gonzalez

He could just appoint another one of his loyal personal lawyers

[LiberalArkie]

4. Gonzalez was who I thought it was going to be all along.

[MemphisTiger]

13. Great minds think alike

I was left scratching my head when he nominated Miers. Now that he pleased his wife by nominating a woman, he can get the son of satan on the bench.

[PDittie]

6. or Priscilla Owen n/t

[Toots]

9. I'm sure you have hit upon it

It will get interesting to say the least. Just how far can the US go in torturing people Mr. Gonzalez? How much torture is too much?

[bryant69]

3. Hmmmmm

That sort of presupposes that their goal is to nominate a white male. I can think of a few round the bend whack jobs who went up for judgeships lately who are female - the two Ediths for example.

Bryant
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[KyndCulture]

5. 3 scary words. Janice Rogers Brown.... nt

[LynneSin]

10. He's not going to nominate Brown or Owens

They are spoiled goods with all the problems both had getting their nomination. THe trick to neo-con supreme court nomination is selecting stealth candidates with little judicial experience. A previous replier to this post mentioned Ted Olsen and I can see that one

:scared:

[Maddy McCall]

7. MY GOD. You and I are thinking alike.

Please look at my post.

Too weird.

[mtnester]

8. My might bulb went off yesterday, then immediately shattered with rage

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1878890&mesg_id=1879319

[Seansky]

11. this is way too far out for me to buy it, can't believe * is that stupid

to risk such a dissent from his own base just to get a chance to point a man...I don't buy it, but I can buy they could be that stupid to think of it....

[Armstead]

12. I think he just made a dumb arrogent move

I think Bush is in a bit of a time warp, back to the day when he could have done anythoing and known it would get through.

I also think he was just engaging in more of his typical Brown-style cronyism. "I like her, an she thinks like me, so she's qualified for the Supreme Court."