http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/10/09/harriet-miers-nomination-what-is-the-end-game/There's an odd mix of ideologies supporting and criticizing the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Bill Kristol (of PNAC and Weekly Standard infamy) is against her.
Conservative Pat Buchanan (paleo-conservative?) is against her.
Evangelical, pro-life Christians are staunchly behind her.
Certain Democratic leaders are defending her (in terms that she's a woman and shouldn't be criticized for being such.)
Some far-right wingnuts are also critical as she's an unknown and some are upset that the Propagandist has selected someone so close in his inner circle of yes-men and ass-kissers.
The running theme seems to focus on abortion, much like a running theme at the end of the 2004 elections focused on same-sex marriage.
Harriet Miers is being used to push a wedge issue to rile the right-wing base in a pre-emptive Rovian move for the 2006 mid-term elections. The GOP cannot win on ideas at this point.
Over 2/3 of this nation feel the country is on the wrong track so they have to pull out the stops and catapault the propaganda in a thinly veiled (but quite damaging to America) get-out-the-vote move.
The Supreme Court is about
far more than just abortion and abortion (in the shape of Roe v. Wade) will never be overturned. What is more important is that Miers is another pro-corporate piece of slime just like Janice Rogers Brown and all the other members of the White House inner circle (and a large majority of the current GOP leadership *cough*DeLay Inc.*cough*).
This nomination isn't about conservative values despite all of the spin and punditry being tossed about. This nomination is about protecting American corporations. That's the end game.
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