When the news is bad, announce it on Friday when fewer people are paying attention or better yet, change the subject.
Last Friday Scott Fitzgerald indicted Vice President Cheney's aid and good friend Scooter Libby for lying under oath (always an endearing quality in a White House official) but no one else was charged. I woke up this morning to the announcement of Samuel Alito (who??) for supreme court justice. Since Alito is apparently not middle of the road, ie controversial, was this announcement done in haste to change the subject from Prosecutor Fitzgerald? One wonders...
But who has time to wonder? On to the next round! I predict the discussion of Alito's views will be interesting for a while before it becomes mind-numbing and bitter. One thing i will enjoy is the discussion of "state's rights" and how states should have the right to put prayer in school and ban abortions but not have the right for medicinal marijuana or doctor assisted suicide. Who knew states are such a tease?
Before Harriet Miers disappears into the fog of history, I am still curious why she was nominated. My guess is that Bush's team created a list of candidates with Alito at the top and Miers nowhere to be seen. The President then decided to take action and unilaterally nominated Miers, his good and loyal friend, to just about everyone's surprise. Of course there is no way to know what really happened, but maybe someday we will and you saw it here first.
