The further down their noses the aristos look at the Hee Haw shenanigans in Austin, the more seethingly resentful the homespun conservatives will become, and the more likely they will be to dig in their heels and insist that Harriet Miers is every bit as good as some hoity toity Harvard Law grad who probably doesn’t even know how to tie his own shoes.
III. Powerball for the Lord, Part 2
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October 8, 2005
WB: Powerball for the Lord, Part 2
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On powerball2, think you have the angle well sussed out. You really got to wonder who let the (W)hat now boy pharaoh bring out the rosetta stone of the rovian master plan out in broad daylight for a long and drawn out public scrutiny and intrepretation debate — for which the democrats, these days are well suited. And I’m encouraged by his adamant declaration (at the press conference) “and she will be confirmed”!! upon walking out, because, short of having a whiskey bottle fall out of his jacked and break on the floor, this guy is begging to be caught.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 8 2005 8:35 utc | 1
Not that it matters a whole lot, but the good Midwesterner George Will is the son of a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois.
OK, it isn’t an Ivy League, but it isn’t SMU either.
(I have a Ph.D from the U of I.)
Posted by: MoDem | Oct 8 2005 15:35 utc | 2
Those notes….
A good take is here from the firedoglake
And meanwhile, every day the NYT goes without telling some version of the story they take a further hit to their claim to have been protecting the principles of journalism. How can you claim to be protecting journalism if you’re actively and demonstrably trying to bury a story? How can you claim to have been protecting the right to expose the full truth when you’re cowering from that truth now? Unfortunately, the NYT can’t tell the story to the public until they figure out precisely what their story to Fitz is going to be, finally. And it would help if Saint Judy would finally figure out her story. But that may take a bit of time yet. “Not going to talk about it.”
Can someone give me a short and sweet rundown of what’s going on with Fitz, etc.? My work sitch is impossible right now, so I haven’t been able to keep up with all the ins and outs of reality vs rumor vs…what notes…
From what I think I know…
Fitz must have sent Rove a letter that he was a “person of interest” or whatever the grand jury/prosecutor calls it.
Rove went back to testify.
Miller…got out of jail by…? And she had an agreement with Fitz that she would only testify about certain things…and now maybe some of those certain things were the notes of a meeting with Libby? Or was it a meeting?
And how does this mean she has perjured herself?
And how do the dates of these various Judy events relate to Wilson’s trip, the phone call on AF1, and whatever else I don’t know to ask about?
What’s the most plausible explanation for what Fitz is doing now, and are there any more rumors about impending indictments?
Did Ashcroft get a letter? Wasn’t he the one who told Andy Card he could wait 12 hours to get info from people?
Where does Gonzalez fit into all this…or is his ass going to be fried when we have an international criminal court indict this administration for war crimes, but not before.
thanks to any brave soul who can help make sense of what’s what.
Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 8 2005 21:23 utc | 4
foh real,
Have you tried firedoglake? She’s
got some of the best stuff on plame.
Do you tink W has jumped the shark with the Miers nomination? I’m inclined to think yes. Hope people start changing channel now.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 9 2005 0:15 utc | 5
i read every diary on dos that is written on plame and i agree – firedoglake is very good. but damn, i think we are all going to have to wait until next week to find out. fitzpatrick is playing it very close to his chest – as he should. i have read so many different theories that it has become nearly impossible to telll them apart. however, susang wrote about gannon /guckert today, speculating that he will go down as well – looks like he incriminated himself when he interviewed wilson and referred to the wh interoffice memo. others wonder if rove has flipped on bush, libby on rove, novack on them all, etc. one person went so far as to speculate that they all wold go down and a triumvirate of al gore, wes clark, and a third they would choose would take over (afterall he did win the 2000 election). in the same vein i have read that scalia will also be indicted. it is as close as i have come to feeling like a child anticipating christmas morning as i have felt in a long time. it seems impossible that something substiantial will not come of this.
Posted by: conchita | Oct 9 2005 1:15 utc | 7
thanks muchly for the link. have it bookmarked now.
I went back and read the early entries from emptywheel…as much as I could. I feel like the world is whirling past me while I’m in this little cocoon carrel seeing it all as a blur.
anna missed- as far as Bush jumping the shark– the U.S. seems so post-fonzie, who knows.
his talk about using troops to quarantine areas makes me a bit uneasy because he screws up everything, so no doubt that sort of thing has the potential to be post-Katrina on crack. Maybe when he starts shooting at the little green footballers…
coming at the same time that it seems we’ve just had a head fake terror alert in NYC, seemingly impending legal actions against Bushistas…
The Miers nomination should be enough to show all Bush supporters that Bush is all about Bush…they’re just wallpaper in his fantasy about his role as god’s soldier on earth, at least when god tells him to go to war..and then it’s back to CYA as normal.
I find it hard to understand his mindset, but it seems to come down to this: He justifies his total selfishness by his devotion to doing what that little voice in his head tells him to do…and it tells him to hurt other people for his benefit…and he calls it god.
People walking the streets with that same mindset end up on major psychotropic meds.
Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 9 2005 15:48 utc | 8