Out With The Old, In With The Old
November 1st, 2005 by Vihar ShethPosted in Politics
It’s been a week since the last post, and for that I apologize . . . to the three people who read this (Vihar points to the drummer for some love). Much has happened in the mean time.
(1) Harriet Miers withdrew her name from consideration for the Supreme Court due to pressure from the radical right of all places. Apparently she just wasn’t good enough friends with the devil. “George Bush is the best governor ever!” Lap dog. Research shows that having two pets is better than one. I suppose Condi Rice was getting lonely.
(2) Yesterday, Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court. I support the presence of a non-judge on the Supreme Court but Miers’s nomination was a joke. And to counter, Bush has nominated uber-ruler “Scalito” Alito, who Bush claims, “has more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in 70 years”. I don’t know if that’s true and I don’t really care. What’s important is that his mother was “tickled pink” by her son’s nomination and told the country, “Of course, he’s against abortion.” She’s 90 so I’ll cut her some slack but why mouth off about your son’s position on the biggest issue facing the Supreme Court in the coming years if the conservatives gain a majority. It’s not like position is a secret, but at least John Roberts said he’d honor precedent. I haven’t read the initial report on Alito a friend of mine forwarded me but you can find it here (pdf). Alliance for Justice and Supreme Court Watch, a project of Alliance for Justice and the publisher of the aforementioned report, are two great sources of more information.
(3) Lewis “Scooter” Libby resigned as Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney. He has subsequently been replaced by two others from Cheney’s circle. He was so good at his job, as the President and his Vice so eloquently told the American public upon Libby’s resignation, that he was doing the lying of two men. A reporter on one morning news program said today that this isn’t a case of one person’s word against anothers. It’s one person’s word (Libby’s) against a whole host of people who are prepared to testify against him. Hopefully this will be a victory for the proponents of truth in Washington, if any are left, and open up room for more investigation into who did what in this pathetic White House. If you’re confused by the entire thing TomPaine.com has put together an amazing little diagram (pdf) outlining who’s who in the world of lying to go to war. A small version of the diagram viewable in your browser can be found here. Click on the picture at the link for a larger version.
(4) Today, Donald Powell, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was appointed as the Bush administration’s coordinator of recovery and rebuilding in the Gulf Coast areas hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I’m probably just missing something here but the FDIC works with banks, not disaster relief, or anything else remotely tangible for that matter. I remember the last time I used a spreadsheet to clean up after a big storm . . . Powell’s former job was chief executive officer of the First National Bank of Amarillo, Texas. There’s the experience we were looking for. Oh yeah, he was a major contributor to Bush’s presidential campaign. There it is.
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