Misdirection on Supreme Court Choice

[erpowers]

So why the misdirection in the form of letting people think that Edith Clement might get the nomination? Was it to see how the Democrats would react and to see how hard they would fight any nominee?

[imenja]

1. all smoke and mirrors to control the news cycle

to give reporters something to talk about other than Rove

[metisnation]

2. back to focus

on the traitors in the white house staff. is that reporter still in jail...loose lips sink ships.

[PDittie]

3. This administration has more leaks than the

fucking Titanic.

It's just another political payoff. Roberts worked in Florida for Bush-Cheney in 2000. He's only been a judge for two years. He's been a partisan Republican hack for twenty years.

Bush was selected by the Supreme Court, and now he selects a member of his campaign to the Supreme Court in order to deflect attention away from ethics violations by the head of its campaign team, Karl Rove.

Partisan hackery at its most pure.

[loudsue]

4. Good summation of the situation.

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