Takin' Bush to Court

Get a clue.

Why was Harriet Miers fired, er did she quit, er resign? We're all supposed to be thinking, "poor Harriett. She leaves with her tail between her legs. What a shame for GWB." Get a grip.

She left because there are much bigger stakes hanging in the balance. The White House knows what's a-comin....investigation, after investigation, after investigation. Watch for Bush to bring in more of daddy's old buddies to bail him out. Makes him look all incompetent and weak, right? WRONG.

We're placing bets on the fact that all of this activity and public hand-wringing is.....drum roll....... a gigantic distraction from the escalation about to happen in Iraq. Karl Rove is no dummy and he'll be looking for a flashy attorney-type figure to keep America tuned to the saucy CSPAN as accusations are hurled around. Think Trump and Rosie (what a waste of publicity, but that's another post!)

Meanwhile. the escalation will be bigger and badder than anyone knows. The neoconartists are hard at work and salivating at the prospect of expanding this ill-fated war. They are as idiotic as ever. Someone should send them to fight, or their kids. Cowards, all of them.

The urge to surge (read ESCALATION) is to get that oil secured, then exit out to the next war in Iran, which will be started by the Israeli's.

NYT President Bush is seeking a new chief lawyer with credentials as a proven combatant as he and his staff prepare for a potential raft of investigations from Democrats in Congress who have promised to challenge the White House’s conduct of policy and its assertions of executive power.

Republicans who have consulted with administration officials on personnel said the White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, was looking for a seasoned Washington hand to succeed Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel who announced her resignation on Thursday.

Republicans said Friday in interviews that the White House was now, in essence, seeking a politically savvy outsider with ties throughout the capital and in Congress who might be called upon to become something of a public figure in potentially high-profile fights....Mr. Bush’s choice will be in the mold of the former solicitor general, Theodore B. Olson, said Republican allies of Mr. Bush who are familiar with the administration’s views. These people, speaking anonymously to preserve their access to White House officials, said they took Mr. Olson at his word that he was not interested in the position.