JUDGE ALITO a Planned Distraction to LIBBY INDICTMENT?

[McCamy Taylor]

Harriet Miers really was a suck SCOTUS nominee. What if they never really expected her to make it through the grilling by the US Senate and her job was just to fill the vacancy until Fitz announced indictments (if any). If indictments were announced, then the WH would nominated soneome like ALITO, a guaranteed fillibuster candidate to draw the attention of the Dems away from the Plame Affair and to mobilize the Right Wing base behind the WH?

Interesting timing, Mieres resigning on the day before Fitz hands down the indictments, Alito being nominated the day after.

I will bet a nickle that if no indictments had been handed down Alito would not have been the nominee. Instead it would be someone who stood a snow balls chance in hell of being cleared by the Senate without a fillibuster fight.

MESSAGE TO THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS: DO NOT BE DISTRACTED:

ALITO IS SUPPPOSED TO MAKE YOU FORGET LIBBY!

Cant do much about the Press. If they want to suck up to the WH, they will.

All the above is classis Rove/Bush family politics.

[Mass]

1. Both a distraction and a way to be sure the base is supportive

[Supersedeas]

13. caving to a base that is quickly evaporating...approval in the high 20's

would be unacceptable.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. OMFG!

Here's the scoop, Distracto.

Alito is a nominee for the Supreme Court. How that functions as a DISTRACTION for anything is beyond me. This is deadly serious business, not some "distraction." You cannot be fucking serious.

[funflower]

4. A Senate-breaking SCOTUS fight will be a distraction for the press and the

public.

But it won't be a blip for Patrick Fitzgerald.

Rove can manipulate the public, but he can't manipulate the law.

[Yupster]

9. Agree Alcibiades

Appointing Supreme Court Justices is the most important long term decision a president makes.

Wen the President names a very conservative SC nominee, this is the most important thing. It's not a distraction from anything else.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. This is NOT a little distraction.

Sorry, it has some serious implications and does get my attention.

[funflower]

7. Distractions can be large or small. This is serious, but it's timing

smells of media manipulation.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Dems can fillibuster W/O losing sight of ROVE MUST GO.

This is why Rove needs a distraction. Today's paper was full of Dems calling for Rove's resignation. He wants them off his case and on Alitos so he can keep doing dirty tricks.

[ochazuke]

5. Gestalt take on bush distractions

Everything they do is a distraction. So much horrid, horrid stuff that you can't possibly focus on any one abomination. So, the whole cespool of governance goes by without the outrage it deserves. Outrage fatigue we got here.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. I'd agree with you IF

there was not an opening on the SCOTUS. This had to be done. Virtually anything GWB does will make news and is therefore a distraction.

Was Miers withdrawn and this guy nominated to distract? I don't think even the evil cabal can slice with that level of precision.

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. Msg to Dems: STICK WITH THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY!

Let the Judicial Committee staff and special interest groups do their thing for a while. There's plenty to dig up and put together.

Stick with ROVE was at the very least "involved" and at most "the original source outing Valerie Plame Wilson". :thumbsup:

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Agree. Keep demanding Rove's resigination. DONT BACK OFF!

[TahitiNut]

10. I have to wonder what abominable stealth legislation is being ...

... surreptitiously inserted in major bills in Congress. With all the front page being filled with CIA/Plame, Judge Alito, and Rosa Parks, we're paying almost no attention to legislation, Iraq, or the economy. Indeed, other than a one-day splash, the corruption investigations of Noe in Ohio, Cunningham in California, Delay in Texas, and Frist with HCA are getting nearly no public attention whatsoever.