[lbo-talk] Harriet Miers

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Jenny Brown:
> So now we know, the perfect Supreme Court nominee is one that emits no
light,
> a perfect sealed box of a candidate.  What did she mean when she said she
> would 'strengthen the judiciary.'  Is there some view that it's being
> weakened--by those infernal rabble in Congress and the state legislatures?

What it means is that the corporate class needs pliable functionaries not
ideologues, and are getting just that.  The usefulness of x-tian and other
conservative idiots who voted for Bush has expired in his second term - so
he feels no obligation to give them anything, let alone a controversial
ideologue that may further damage the usefulness of the SC for maintaining
the legitimacy of the corporate rule.  

I think Bush - or his handlers - made a very clever move which should be
recognized as such - even though it is not a move that most of us would
applaud.  

Wojtek