Olbermann's Theory on Harriet Miers' departure...

[npincus]

Last night he suggested that Miers was leaving because with Dems in control, the WH had to call in the "big guns" to deal with the onsalught of investigations, subpeonas, battles.

Jonathan Turley was on, and said he believed that the b*sh Admin had broken the law numerous times. When/ if hearings delve into those, does impeachment follow?

[BOSSHOG]

1. Harriet just wasn't nasty enough to her fellow human beings

bush needs a real nasty, hateful "conservative" mother fucker to aggressively cover his worthless ass. Its a shame that we don't believe as "conservatives" believe that republican crimes should just be winked away.

[ClassWarrior]

2. He also speculated that she was traded...

...to some baseball team as a pitcher in exchange for Randy Johnson. LOL

NGU.

[LittleClarkie]

3. The office wife didn't have enough muscle?

It sounds like.

[Jacobin]

4. Only if Bush can be proved to have had consensual sex

Sorry, no impeachy

[wryter2000]

5. Sounds plausible

I wondered, too, if they're anticipating some dirt on her coming up during hearings and they're getting her out of the way in order to make her a "former" official.

[Atman]

6. That's pretty much it. She was a lap dog, and he now needs a pit bull.

Bush has some very serious lawbreaking. The courts have ruled against him on numerous occasions. It's going to take a crazy, rabid partisan Bush ass-licker to try to make a case for him without breaking into laughter, or watching his soul burst into flames. Harriet wasn't that person. She was the one who rubber-stamped everything he wanted to do as "legal." She's out, because her next stop is going to be the witness stand.

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[kskiska]

8. * described her as a pit bull in size 6 shoes

Maybe he needs a it bull with bigger shoes.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Man, her feet are small. nt

[Atman]

18. She falls over a lot. That's why Bush likes her.

She's like a drinking buddy. They're both on the ground a lot.

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[Capn Amerika]

9. LOL! This line:

"...without breaking into laughter, or watching his soul burst into flames." :rofl:

[npincus]

20. Ben Ginsberg fits that bill

Poster Boy for RW Bush-luvin' Shitheads

[WilliamPitt]

7. I'm not a lawyer, though I've worked with many, so I have to ask:

Where, in all the realm of civil and criminal law, across the sweeping landscape of American jurisprudence, in the law books carrying judgments from the tiniest muni court to the august rulings of the Supremes, where o where o where...

...is the law that says quitting your job makes you immune from obeying a subpoena for testimony?

Unemployment is a shield against a summons? Rilly? I'd like to see that case cite. I'd like to get on Lexis and Shepherdize the hell out of it, just to see if it was used as precedent anywhere else. This could be a whole new theater of law: indolence as liability shield. Imagine.

Pssst...Harriet...the sherriff knows where you live. Indolence won't keep Mr. Conyers from shooting you that official piece of paper. You might as well have held onto the gig. You'll need the paychecks for the legal fees.

I suddenly love winter. :)

[Beetwasher]

10. I Don't Think That's What's Being Said

I don't think she left so she can be shielded (or that that's what Olberman was saying), she left because she's not COMPETENT enough to handle what's coming. IOW, they need a real heavy hitter to take on the onslaught of investigations and subpoena's that are coming their way. They need a REAL lawyer, not an ass kissing hack like Harriet.

I think that this is probably the correct interpretation as well. We all know Meiers job was to kiss ass and babysit and didn't have much to do w/ lawyering and litigation.

[Atman]

11. "They need a REAL lawyer, not an ass kissing hack like Harriet."

Bingo.

(Or "Barney")

[mnhtnbb]

12. Maybe she had warned Bush about some of the shit he's pulled.

Maybe she didn't want to be in the position of having to defend it
during investigations.

[Pathwalker]

13. Turley also suggested the signing statements

were "butt-covering" for laws they broke. Hmmmm.

[Virginia Dare]

14. The Washington Post had the same angle on that story...

she was in over her head, there is going to be a nasty legal battle between Congress and the Bush Administration in the next two years, and she simply wasn't up to the task. Probably nobody in Bush's sphere is.

[badgerpup]

17. Yup....

"Republican advisers have been telling the White House to be ready for war, and many cited Miers as the wrong general. "The White House knew they needed to get a tough street fighter -- that's what this is about," said one such adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve access to the White House.

The advice, according to this person, could be summed up this way: "You guys better lawyer up, and lawyer up in the right way. You better understand the need and the peril and the urgency. . . . You need somebody as tough as Harold Ickes or Bruce Lindsey. Because they're coming for you."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400778.html?referrer=email

:popcorn::beer:

[Benhurst]

15. It's an obvious case of sexual discrimination.

She's not the pretty young thing she was when she first came to the White House.

[valerief]

19. She was good enough to be a Supreme Court Justice though.

Guess that doesn't take any skill.