Thursday, October 27, 2005

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.

2 Comments:

At 10/27/2005 2:21 PM, Blogger Sir Galen of Bristol said...

And yet he chose John Roberts. There is grounds for hope.

 
At 10/27/2005 2:39 PM, Blogger Pro Ecclesia said...

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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