SCLB & The Harriet Lovefest
I can't understand how all these so-called liberal blogs are enthusiastically jumping on the Harriet Miers bandwagon. Personally, Ms Miers scares me worse than Roberts, just from the fact that she has absolutely no judicial experience and she's a Bush cronie.
Before more people jump on the Miers bandwagon, please do yourself a favor and read this excellent post from Media Girl. Quick excerpt:
We're supposed to believe that, suddenly, Karl Rove had a stroke, Bush grew a conscience and that the Miers nomination is a liberal-directed stumble. ("Whoops! Did I accidentally nominate a liberal? Oh fuck!")
And we're supposed to believe that, quite suddenly and inexplicably, Bush is now afraid of the Democrats.
We're supposed to believe that Bush is secretly pro-choice (and thus Miers must be, too).
We're supposed to believe that Miers is pro-choice, despite her pro-life political campaign.
We're supposed to attribute this pro-gay-adoption memo to her personal views, even though there are 12 signatures on it. And we're supposed to extrapolate this alleged view to represent pro-civil rights views in general.
We're supposed to melt upon hearing of her article advocating legal representation for the poor.
We're supposed to believe that she's really a Democrat. Not only that, a liberal Democrat, even.
I can't see straight, for all the spinning in the so-called "liberal" blogosphere. Maybe they're right. Maybe she's a raving liberal. Some folks say that Dems and progressives should support her, simply because the wingnuts are up in arms. But I wonder just how much of that right-wing protest is simply a reaction to the nomination of a 60-year-old, unmarried, childless, career woman. Obviously her non-wife, non-breeder status casts a shadow on her conservative credentials. Ahem....
WORD, Media Girl. Fucking Word.
Before more people jump on the Miers bandwagon, please do yourself a favor and read this excellent post from Media Girl. Quick excerpt:
We're supposed to believe that, suddenly, Karl Rove had a stroke, Bush grew a conscience and that the Miers nomination is a liberal-directed stumble. ("Whoops! Did I accidentally nominate a liberal? Oh fuck!")
And we're supposed to believe that, quite suddenly and inexplicably, Bush is now afraid of the Democrats.
We're supposed to believe that Bush is secretly pro-choice (and thus Miers must be, too).
We're supposed to believe that Miers is pro-choice, despite her pro-life political campaign.
We're supposed to attribute this pro-gay-adoption memo to her personal views, even though there are 12 signatures on it. And we're supposed to extrapolate this alleged view to represent pro-civil rights views in general.
We're supposed to melt upon hearing of her article advocating legal representation for the poor.
We're supposed to believe that she's really a Democrat. Not only that, a liberal Democrat, even.
I can't see straight, for all the spinning in the so-called "liberal" blogosphere. Maybe they're right. Maybe she's a raving liberal. Some folks say that Dems and progressives should support her, simply because the wingnuts are up in arms. But I wonder just how much of that right-wing protest is simply a reaction to the nomination of a 60-year-old, unmarried, childless, career woman. Obviously her non-wife, non-breeder status casts a shadow on her conservative credentials. Ahem....
WORD, Media Girl. Fucking Word.