The New Road

Harriet Miers

I'm of two minds about this Harriet Miers hoopla. On the one hand it could me a simple mistake by the administration. On the other it could have been an amazingly well choreographed scam, that so far has gone very wrong.

How could it have been a mistake? Ok. The President genuinely thinks that Harriet is a good candidate. So he nominates her without first informing the pundit headline through the talking points fax. Bad move, the pundidiots love that fax machine, because at the other end of it is Karl, and Karl is all things good. You see, they don't have loyalty to the party, or to Bush, they have loyalty to the talking points. Without the talking points on Harriet the pundidiots had to actually look at the candidate and, lo and behold, she is a total incompetent. So into smear mode they go.

I actually think that's unlikely. Partly because Karl was, at some point, behind this. He talked with Dobson. Remember? The guy who said he had special knowledge that he couldn't share, but then when threatened with an appearance before the judicial committee simple recanted what we all already knew and what he had said a week earlier on a TV show.

Yeah, so I think the plan was this, have all of the pundidiots come out and slam her. Then re-launch with some arcane knowledge and have the pundidiots all reverse course. That's half baked because first, she isn't legislation, you can't fix her and then re-submit her. And primarily because pundidiots never change their mind. Remember the Republican credo; "We are never wrong, and when we are wrong, we never change our mind." The great leader Bush can't change his mind, so neither can druggy Limbaugh, or Michelle "I would have had my parents killed" Malkin, or Mann Coulter.

Of course, I could be wrong. This second scenario does seem shaky and ill-planned. And either that's because it's so amazingly obfuscated a plan that it's completely impenetrable, or because Karl, who is facing mucho time in an orange jumpsuit, is a little busy at the moment. It's fascinating to watch either way.

Frankly, as Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, whatever we want to call ourselves, we deserve to loose the reproductive freedoms offered by Roe vs. Wade. We didn't fight hard enough, we didn't organize. We lost. And you can't win this game on a technicality. We need to create a structure, just like the Republicans, that presents a solid reinforced message continuously. Then take back over Government and once again ensure that everyone has the ability to control their own bodies. Sometimes you have to loose what you value in order to understand why you had it in the first place.