Who Will Dubya Pick Now?
What I hope will happen:
Michael McConnell, Michael Luttig, Edith Jones, Samuel Alito, or Emilio Garza.
What I hope will happen if Bush just has to fill this slot with a woman:
Edith Jones, Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, or Karen Williams.
What I hope will happen if Bush just has to fill this slot with a Hispanic:
Emilio Garza or Miguel Estrada.
What I fear will happen:
Alberto Gonzales, Edith Brown Clement, or Consuelo Callahan.
Let's hope Dubya learned a lesson from the Miers debacle. Unfortunately, I think Dubya is (1) too hard-headed, (2) too self-assured regarding his own "good judgment" and ability to "see inside" people's hearts, and (3) too unwilling to look outside his own circle of personal acquaintances to actually make a decent pick on the merits.
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:22 AM
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2 Comments:
And yet he chose John Roberts. There is grounds for hope.
Dubya had personal knowledge of John Roberts who had worked in the Bush 41 Administration.
Look, Bush has made some excellent personnel decisions: Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Roberts, etc. But all of them worked in some capacity for his father.
The problem comes when the well of previous Bush-appointed talent begins to run dry. I'm not sure Bush has the capacity to make a decent decision once he has to go beyond his comfort zone of personal knowledge.
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