Who suggested Silberman?

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

The decision to name Judge Laurence Silberman to co-chair the WMD commission is fascinating and repugnant.

With the exception of Scalia or Clarence Thomas, Bush could not have chosen a less respected and more partisan member of the bench to lead this crew on its wayward, pointless journey. (Predicted 03/31/05 "finding": Hey, guess what? The intelligence was screwed up, sort of. There were some CIA/DIA/NSA/State guys who said to take all this 'evidence' with a grain of salt, but let's not be too upset they weren't listened to. ... What's that? You wanna know how the administration interpreted/misrepresented/ignored the data? Oh, sorry, that's not our brief!)

Even draped in robes, Silberman is nothing but a waterboy for all things GOP. He freed North and Poindexter with the spurious argument that their prosection was ipso facto tainted by their immunized testimony before Congress; from the bench, he claimed Clinton was waging war against the United States when the president was trying to shield the Secret Service from testifying in the Starr probe; David Brock says Silberman, while drawing pay as a federal, unbiased judge, mind you, was engaged wholeheartedly in the background efforts to rip Clinton from his presidential moorings.

Yet there must be dozens of Republican judges throughout the country who have NOT engaged in partisan activity on the bench and thus still enjoy the respect of their brethren and others.

Bush is too dumb to have realized that the name "Silberman" would resonate like a lightning rod among the legions of Democrats whom the judge has attempted to cudgel throughout his professional career. Thanks to the naming of Silberman, this commission's conclusions are D.O.A. before they're even spawned.

A White House "adviser," laden with the task of finding an "acceptable" (wink-wink) choice but crossing his/her fingers that the revulsion at the choice would be minimal, must have suggested Silberman as an honest broker to the dimwit in charge. Who was it?

[lancdem]

1. Probably Cheney or Rove

They wanted a loyal soldier who'd produce a whitewash, and he fit the bill.

[SoCalDem]

2. Bush is not "too dumb" .

His whole administration has been about a sharp stick in the eye of every democrat in the US..

In politics , nothing happens by accident..

[buycitgo]

3. excellent analysis!

too bad your run of mill media hack will Never come close to this.

bad as you've pointed him out to be....he's even WORSE, if you can imagine!

he was an integral figure in the October Surprise, for starters, accused Anital Hill of being a lesbian (not that there's anything wrong with that), threatened to beat up Abe Mikva in front of Ken Starr, who "looked at the ceiling," according to Mikva (this during the aftermath of deliberations on the federal bench!!!)

[grasswire]

4. Cheney was making phone calls last week...

...remember.

[buycitgo]

5. you are so

perspicacious!

is he possessed of THAT much hubris?

does he think the media will completely ignore the SERIOUSly treasonous background/ties this creep has?

he's worse than Ted Olson, for lord's sake

[UTUSN]

6. Kenneth-the-Menneth STARR??? n/t

[BigDaddyLove]

7. That's what I was thinking too.

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[RedEarth]

8. I heard that Silberman and Cheney have a long relationship....nt

[Bozita]

9. Maybe they'll go hunting together next week. ...

... shooting at birds ... in cages.