WTF Is It Now?!?

Pic by James Wages.


"My job is to lead and to solve problems." - Bunnypants, 10/4/05.
Well, you suck at both.



"A political disaster"
No, besides former House majority leader Tom DeLay's second indictment.
No, not the SEC's investigation into Senate majority leader Bill Frist's alleged insider trading.
Ummm, no, not VP Cheney's office being named in the CIA leak probe.
OK, not Iraq, either. Geez.

'ABC's Terry Moran asked [WH spokes-tool Scott] McClellan if Bush appointing his personal lawyer, someone with no experience on the bench, is "not the definition of cronyism, what is?"'

She's a a trailblazer! She served as counsel to the president's gubernatorial committee in '93! She represented him in a fishing dispute!

Kelly O'Donnell: To what extent did the President's personal friendship with Harriet Miers have an impact on his ultimate decision? And those who say that it is sort of the appearance of cronyism, that -- did this relationship give her an advantage, and the fact that she was heading the search committee?

McCLELLAN: Well, the President knows her well. He has known her for some time now. But the decision was based on who was the best person to fill this vacancy. And she has the qualifications and experience needed {????? -Ed.} to do an outstanding job on the United States Supreme Court, and that's why the President selected her.

Q: Was he rewarding a friend?

McCLELLAN: I'd say look at her record. She helped clean up the Lottery Commission!

George W. Bush has just rung the death knell for his presidency, says a Star-Trib editorial:

For the Supreme Court of the United States, a president under fire for cronyism has chosen the ultimate crony.

Now the Ted Kennedy left will have a field day portraying Miers as an unqualified crony while the political right remains unenthused and silent -- because they, too, consider her an unqualified crony.

And those are just some conservatives. The blogosphere Monday was full of other conservatives who weren't silent, but outspokenly angry...