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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Sandwiches – just too obvious.

Who cares? What do you do at the firm – deliver briefs and sandwiches? I guess the reason I find all you retro types so interesting is the need you have to “feel” thoroughly original, which you are not. How I yearn for the days of the SDS, the Weathermen, the REAL Black Panthers, SNCC, and my all time favourite, the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Would someone please tell me where Symbion is??) Now really thrill yourselves and start bringing back macrame. It’s like getting retreads instead of new tires – been there – done that. Yawn!!!

{I’m thinking Bush needs Meiers in there because he’s gonna need all the firepower he can get in his corner when the Plame indictments start coming down.

Comment by yankee451 — October 4, 2005 @ 1:41 am}

IMO, yankee’s on the right track.

Look at Meier’s two qualifications:

1. She’s totally loyal to the Bush Family Evil Empire.

2. She’ the lawyer for a bunch of oil companies and other corporations who survive by sucking at the government teat.

The two questions the dems should ask (but probably won’t) are:

1. Would she recuse herself from any cases involving bushco.

2. Would she recuse herself involving any cases that would benefit her corporate clients.

Further, I totally agree with you (proud and progressive) that it is very interesting to communicate with people, ESPECIALLY from other countries to learn more about the other’s point of views and broaden one’s own horizon. Since I began reading this and other blogs like this one I have learned so much!
So keep up the good work *g*

I think your problem is that you don’t want others to see what a cock up your country has made of the democratic ideal. And I can understand that. It would be only natural for a nation, whose guiding ideal is the accumulation of wealth, to produce rampant cronyism and corruption. But showing up the short comings of the system may not be the best way to encouarge the world’s masses to embrace your version of democracy.

As for Bush’s latest nomination I agree with one pundit who says she is essentially Bush’s “Get Out of Jail Free!” card. Judging by the reaction of the Christian Right, Bush has ignored their wishes with his choice. He seems to be willing to cut loose this portion of his base now that he has secured his second term. I think he’s stacking the deck in his favour in case a special prosecutor comes a knockin’ someday.

It should be interesting to watch the man as his last term runs its course. Bush is a man who is really starting to show the strain of his office (ie, hitting the bottle again).A man with an imperious manner who is rapidly losing his grasp on reality invites some comparisons with historical counterparts. Hitler; nah to easy. I think the Emperor Caligula is more appropriate as he provides a measuring stick that can be applied today. He appointed his horse to the Roman senate and confirmed what everyone thought; the man is crazy as a loon. All the Dems have to do now is wait to see if Bush appoints his pooch to his cabinet and then move to impeach him (assuming this is an impeachable offense).

But in all seriousness, I really wonder if you Yanks are not headed to some kind of civil war. Now I’m not talking about a physical conflict like the War Between the States or Northern Ireland or Iraq. I’m thinking more along the lines of a cultural/societal divide that will grow to the point where the two sides are too far apart for any reconciliation of their points of view. Especially when religion and faith increase the polarization.
Assuming the right wing becomes even more ascendant in the next few years, eating away at civil liberties and pushing a religious agenda, how will the average moderate American react? For the women who lose their right to an abortion or parents who don’t want religion taught in the classroom, will they be willing to let democracy follows it’s course while their basic beliefs are being threatened? Will they be willing to put their trust in an electoral system deserving of a third world country? What was it that guy said about living in interesting times?

It appears that her loyalty is personal to Bush, not to right wing ideology. That may be a good thing.
When Bush leaves office, Miers’ loyalty to Bush will no longer matter.

What she will do then is anyone’s guess, but I very much doubt she will be as bad as Scalia or Thomas. With life tenure, I suspect she will then be a stickler for precedent and probity rather than a rabid right wing ideologue.

Considering all the extremely reactionary candidates with better legal credentials that Bush might have chosen, I think she is the best we are likely to do.

Also, as more or the Bush cabal’s criminal acts come to light, perhaps we’ll find grounds to impeach her at some future date. A candidate more remote from White House machinations might be harder to impeach.

I think the Democrats should support her nomination, if for no other reasons than to drive the right wing nuts around the bend and increase the widening divisions within the Republican Party.