Bush has just asked for civility as he announced his nominee for the Supreme Court. Was supposed to be weeks from now, but there's another scandal to try to quash, dammit!
I don't know crap about this guy John Roberts, but here's an opposition paper (courtesy of Hunter):
John Roberts, Operation Stop-Looking-At-Rove Nominee
Yoinks.
Bush also put a shot across the democrats bow by mentioning that he thinks this whole process can be civil. A lack of civility should be reserved, in our fair nation, for stealing presidential elections via the purging of minority voters from roles in a state run by your brother, steering a country into an unjust, illegal war, and exposing CIA agents and their NOC companies and co-workers as a means of political payback.
I'm surprised Bush didn't vomit at his own use of the word.
Whether one chooses to support or oppose Roberts, either out of spite or principle, one must not lose sight of another case of convenient timing.
Just as burying leak news on a document-dump Friday helps quell the rebellious media in one of Bush's bumpiest periods, piling giant news of a supreme court nominee on a Tuesday to curdle through the week--in the treasonous, lecherous hands of the Bush-Rove-Cheney triumverate--is the diabolical inverse.
Yellowcake, buried.
AWOL, buried.
Sy Hersh, buried.
DSM, buried.
Rove/Plame... buried?
This guy is fifty years old, and nothing like Sandray Day O'Connor. But that doesn't mean Rove/Plame will go away. Fitzgerald will continue his dogged pursuit, and by the time confirmation dies down, perhaps there will be some indictments, and more backpedalling... I can already see Bush, saying, "I have said, repeatedly, that if someone is convicted of a crime they may have been indicted for, they will no longer be in this administration." In short, I think Operation S.T.A.R. will backfire eventually.
Unfortunately, we might still have a 50 year old conservative on the SCOTUS.
Partially cross-posted at Progressive Programmer.