Something To Think About

One looks back over the political activities of the past week and certain things stick in the mind. After watching the nomination of Harriet Miers disappear in a bloody shark attack by the CRWXtians like so much worthless chum and on top of that, the Libby indictment, I took to wondering which group George Bush would chose to punish.

You know George, he can't allow a back stab to go unpunished. One look at the record concerning Republicans who've worked for him and later told the truth about what was going on behind the steel curtain of secrecy imposed by this administration tells the story better than I could.

So who gets the shaft by Bush's appointment of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court, the jubilant blood stained sharks who ripped the living flesh off Harriet Miers or the left wingers who cheered the indictment of Scooter, or both? At first glance one would think the Right Wingnuts got their way, but I'm not so sure. When has the Bushie ever rewarded anyone for sticking it to him over a nomination or anything else? Never happened - won't ever happen, I say.

That being the case, is there something unseen, mayhaps even nebulous, beneath the hard-core veneer of the Alito nomination that is being missed by both sides? Could this be the reason certain Democrats in the Senate are starting to doubt that the filibuster should be used? While it's true that the Democratic leadership knows the CRWXtians are frothing at the mouth and can't wait for a filibuster that would take the focus of the national media off the Libby situation and remove some of the heat from Rove and Cheney, I don't think that's the sole reason for their backing away from the filibuster.

Bush wants to rush this nomination through before the end of the year. It's doubtful that will happen, but it will give the CRWXtians something to howl about for the next couple of months, keeping their focus off any deep investigation into Judge Alito. Could this be the main reason the Bushie is pushing so hard this time?

The Right Wingers should know by now that they can't trust Bush anymore than the rest of America can trust him. They didn't trust him in the Miers incident even though he BEGGED them to. Yet now, thinking he submitted to their ultimate wisdom, they're all gaga over this nomination. It's all very interesting indeed.

When Hitler finally came to the realization that WWII was lost, he decided to punish the German people by destroying the nation's infrastructure. Could Bush be thinking along those same lines? Is this nomination going to blow up in the faces of his supporters much like other conservative nominations have in the past? Sitting on the court often proves to be quite different from arguing in front of it.

Or is the Alito nomination meant to further polarize the nation? Is it meant to put a dagger into the heart of judicial law that will keep Americans fighting over trivial Xtian church/state issues long after Bush is gone from office rather than allowing us to focus upon important issues that would heal the wounds and bring Americans back together again away from the extremes of both the right and left?

Whatever the case, I think this nomination needs deep inspection before arriving at a conclusion. Jumping to one will not serve the interests of the American people.

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