October 06, 2005
Bottom of the Ninth: Bush Signals for Rookie Over Experienced Closers
The Supreme Team needs a strong closer to seal a victory over activists who use the bench to legislate. We've gone through eight with mixed results, and this is the ninth position in the decisive inning. In this situation, would you pick someone who can slam the door on the opponent or bring in someone whom no one has seen outside of the minors? How does political analyst and baseball expert George Will call this?
If 100 such people had been asked to list 100 individuals who have given evidence of the reflectiveness and excellence requisite in a justice, Miers's name probably would not have appeared in any of the 10,000 places on those lists.
Uh, oh. Bush picked the rookie--a suspect righty, even though there were strong closers warmed up. The other side has a line up of heavy hitters who bat from the left. We might be overmatched. And, to think that Bush used to be a managing partner of the Texas Rangers ball club.
Posted by GM Roper at October 6, 2005 01:50 PM | TrackBackWhat's worse is that half the fielders are on the other team. Our pitcher desperately needs to throw strikeouts! Talk about a pressure situation...
Posted by civil truth at October 6, 2005 03:08 PM
Still, we can't help but conclude that the ACLU has so sucessfully instilled such strong anti-religious sentiment in the left that no matter who is nominated for what, the first and loudest complaint is the nominee's religious persuasion. All I've heard from the left is, "She's evangelical! She's evangelical! She'll overturn Roe v Wade!" We heard enough of it when Roberts was nominated. Never, in my own history of watching politics, have I seen such a single minded and consistent attack method. Since when has one's religious persuaion disqualified them from the courts?
Posted by Oyster at October 7, 2005 12:08 PM
