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September 12, 2005
John Roberts... Mike Brown... what is with the bland names, Bucko?
I wanted to see Mike Brown go down. Didn't we all? Aren't we glad his little margarita-filled head is rolling? And I see, in the distance, Karl Rove with an axe, tip bloody and rimmed with salt.
But as Mario Cuomo once said of a corrupt Reaganite. "He's a walnut in the batter of eternity." The systematic failures of the Bush admin. on so many levels will never be illuminated, not in the least because now there's a fall guy whose, well, fallen. But remember... Christine Whitman left the EPA (a puff of smog of its old self)... Colin Powell left the State dept. (after lying to the UN and letting the Iraq war happen without so much a peep of his normal rationality)... People leave Bush once they've let him gut their institutions.
Rove won't let you see it all.
Saw Johnny Roberts Appleseed ruminate on silos. He'll be confirmed and we can only hope he is the pretty boy version of Earl Warren, confirmed as a conservative, reigning as a liberal. Very doubtful. He needs to answer the questions, though. No hedging. The right of privacy, whether he's an organic intrepreter (not at all) or a Originalist or a strict interpreter...
I foresee dark times. Not just in Los Angeles (currently without power.)
Posted by emily at September 12, 2005 5:48 PM