My old friend Steve Soto of The Left Coaster is the winner of my unofficial Supreme-Court-of-the-United-States-Nomination-Announcement-as-a-Distraction-from-Plamegate contest. That is to say, he's the first Bush-hater I've seen or read today who's made that suggestion. Of course, everybody from Harry Reid to Lurch has now also said it today, but Soto gets the prize, which is to be quoted herewith:
So, with things not going well for the White House in its efforts to manage the drip-drip-drip damage from the Plame outing, something needed to be done to redirect attention away from the White House’s role in a national security breach towards something else. And after telling reporters late last week that his Supreme Court choice would be named sometime between July 26th and July 28th to allow the Senate a minimal amount of time as possible to go through the candidate’s background in advance of the court’s opening session in the first week of October, the White House has decided to push up Bush’s announcement of his Supreme Court selection to tonight to take attention away from the Plame outing.I didn't know, of course, that the President had actually telegraphed his moves and motivations to the press like that, but whatever. By unconscionably burdening the Senate with an extra ten days to deliberate on their confirmation or denial of his nomination, Bush has once again proved that he is, in fact, Adolf Hitler.
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Updated: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 2:53 PM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 2:53 PM CDT