And if it DOES seem that way, credit it to a slow news day...not ALL of us can plan their blogging day by posting rumors that that every backfiring scooter happens to be a terrorist act in progress...and it's the buzz, it's frickin hilarious, and even grownups like a hearty chortle now and again...
WSJ.com - Unwise Counsel
"...Other problems with the nomination abound. When you're an administration already facing charges of cronyism and you appoint someone who is pretty undeniably a crony, you had better be locked-and-loaded on a response. This White House, instead, seems to have been caught flatfooted. That seems to have been the pattern across the board: GOP chair Ken Mehlman held a teleconference with influential bloggers a week and a half after the nomination was announced, instead of on the day of the announcement, when it might have done some good.
The White House didn't improve things by responding to expressions of disappointment with charges of sexism and elitism, charges that merely made Ms. Miers look more like an affirmative action candidate. And, as has been reported, the Miers vetting process wasn't even complete when the nomination was announced, and the difficulties involved in vetting an insider who was in charge of the vetting process raise doubts about its thoroughness. The result is a nomination that's damaging even if it succeeds.
The entire affair gives the impression (my emphasis) of an administration that is distracted and not up to its usual standards of well-oiled efficiency on political and judicial matters. As Mr. Bush faces calls to withdraw the Miers nomination, he should think seriously about whether to accept them -- along, perhaps, with the resignations of those responsible for this mess."
"Gives the impression"? Thats like saying a dead man gives the impression he's definitely done dancing. This is reminiscent of the first Presidential debate when W arrived tottally unprepared and seemed all sorts of bitchy about having to find time in his busy day to yak it up with Lurch in front of a live audience. It is amazing what they deem important and what the think they can wing-through on a hope and a prayer, but often times that's precisely how, dare I say it, kings and queens behave.
"Hey, don't you see that I'm busy here?" is the refrain when the White House is caught unprepared, and the dead giveaway is when George starts talking about how "hard" everyone's been working to accomplish something. Hey, none of this stuff is easy, and we've been working real hard, everybody's been trying real hard, all of us pitched in and we're goin' real hard at the problem...
Sorry then to have disturbed his majesty, and perhaps you could do us all a favor at working real hard learning how to pronounce enough words in the English language to not embarass us every frickin time you take the mike.
And George? We DO trust you or we wouldn't have busted our collective asses to get your hick ass elected. But it's not a secret club where one of us forgot the password into the treefort, George, so finding the time now and again to illuminate us as to your line of reasoning might be just the ticket for making everybody feel a whole lot better about placing the country into the hands of someone who more and more is reminding us of Jimmy Carter II.
And to GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS, the author of the Wall Street Journal article that started this whole rant, are you frickin' serious or what? Fire who or to put it more delicately, ask WHO to resign? Bush's counsel on judicial nominations was the one he NOMINATED. It was his choice and his bloody advisor went along with it, which goes to show, as we've been saying all along, that for that jerkwad advice alone she isn't worthy of consideration. Or maybe it's Laura you want canned? Come on dude, name some names here and stop such mealy mouthed "those responsible for this mess". If you know enough about it, then by all MEANS, tell us who is to blame.
Right? What's that you say? You're just another blogger who the Journal asked to do a commentary piece and you haven't clue-one either?
Oh, sorry about that. Never mind.
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