Conservatives are getting desperate to find a way out of the Harriet Miers fiasco. Earlier today, I noted Charles Krauthammer’s idea to gin up a dispute over the production of documents in order to find a way for the nomination to be withdrawn while allowing all Republicans to save face.
Rush Limbaugh has an even crazier notion:
My idea is this: The solution to the Harriet Miers issue. The president announce that he's withdrawing her from nomination to the Supreme Court because he's decided to appoint her to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve. He trusts her. She has filled out her own income tax forms all of her life, and she has done her personal banking all of her life. She knows banks, she knows tax reform, tax policy, and the president trusts her, so she could go to the Federal Reserve.I have a better idea. The Lakers did not make the playoffs last year. Since Shaq left for Miami they have been looking for a starting center. If Laker owner Jerry Buss offered Miers a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to start at center for the Lakers, Miers could announce that she is no longer available for duty on the court. After all, a playoff game might be scheduled at the same time as an important oral argument and she just would not be able to do both.
President Bush, Harriet Miers and the GOP would all save face. Laker owner Jerry Buss would become Ambassador to whatever warm weather country he chooses. Phil Jackson would get to teach Harriet the triangle offense rather than having Arlen Specter teach her constitutional law. Kobe will get to take all the shots. Everyone will be happy.
Posted by Dwight Meredith at October 21, 2005 11:09 PMThe only flaw with your plan, I think, is that it takes as a given that a job with the Lakers might cut into her SCOTUS-ing time. But let the Simpsons be our guide:
Marge: Do you want your son to become become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or a sleazy male stripper?
Homer: Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
Marge: Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!
Homer: /Now/ who's being naive?
Posted by: ArC at October 22, 2005 04:26 AMI think she'd make a better power forward.
Posted by: NTodd at October 22, 2005 08:43 AMLimpbutt has either found one of his lost stashes of hillbilly heroin or he's gots a Dr. Feelgood willing to write prescriptions for him again.
Posted by: Shoplifter on Aisle 10 at October 22, 2005 08:45 AMNorbiz been there, done that.
Posted by: EssJay at October 22, 2005 08:51 AMShe could do a heck of a job with FEMA*
(*better than Brownie, or a trained monkey**)
(**also better than Brownie)
Posted by: mdhåtter at October 22, 2005 09:00 AMClearly, Limbaugh is strung out again.
Posted by: Tropicana at October 22, 2005 09:06 AMI've got an even better idea. How about pilot on Air Force One?
To use the Oxymoron's qualification criteria, she's flown on it a bunch so's she's obviously ready to fly it.
Is it possible that Rush was being facetious there? It sounds to me like he was trying to point out the farcical nature of her appointment to the bench via a Modest Proposal.
The bloviating dipshit still sucks.
Posted by: Matt at October 22, 2005 09:51 AMI agree with Matt. Limberger was joshing. Bet it spells doom for Harriet.
Posted by: mpower1952 at October 22, 2005 09:58 AMIt sounds to me like he was trying to point out the farcical nature of her appointment to the bench via a Modest Proposal.
That's how it sounded to me - but I thought Rush insisted that he thought Miers was a solid choice before. A man of Rush's character wouldn't flip-flop so easily on his opinion, would he?
Agree with Matt as well. Tell me that none of you people are actually so dumb as to not see that Limbaugh was being sarcastic?
Posted by: thetalkinghead at October 22, 2005 10:07 AMLimberger was joshing.
That's the way I read it.
I thought Rush insisted that he thought Miers was a solid choice before.
No, he's been rather unhappy with her nom. Just the other day he was trying to buck up the troops and mentioned her in a list of things that don't look good, but hey, don't worry, we're still better than liberals!
Posted by: NTodd at October 22, 2005 10:12 AMRush was joking on the square?
WOW! Al is having an affect...
Dwight, this is a great idea and a wonderful way for Bush to save face! He can say, "No no no no, I didn't mean I wanted to appoint her to THAT court! I meant the basketball court!"
See, it isn't so hard to think like Rove if you try even a little bit.
I think Limbaugh should hire Miers as his permanent replacement for when he's on vacation. Also, then she would have enough time for the Lakers too. And maybe also that stripper thing. How much is Limbaugh on vacation a year anyway?
Or hire her as the lawyer for Intelligent Design challenges in school districts across the country. It's god's work, after all.
Posted by: Bob Davis at October 22, 2005 11:29 AMGeorge Bush knows Harriet Miers. He's known her for over ten years. He knows what kind of person she is, and he trusts her. He trusts her to pull down the big defensive rebounds near the end of the game. He trusts her to box out Yao and not draw the foul. He knows what a special and talented person she is, and he trusts that she won't try to put the ball to the floor, because that's not what big men do. George Bush says she'll make a fine Center for the Los Angeles Lakers, and we should trust our president.
Posted by: joe at October 22, 2005 12:15 PMBy Limbaugh's logic she would also be eligible for Presidential ass-wiper. I'm fairly certain she's wiped her own bum her entire life and the senate could at least subpeona her grocery store receipts to see if she's purchased her own TP the past 7 years, though a little lee-way is granted there of course. Gotta love it when those conservatives brains really start firing away.
Posted by: Tom A. at October 22, 2005 01:55 PMIsn't it fairly clear here that Limbaugh, in his own bull in a chinashop way, is attempting to make a joke? I didn't hear it but it seems clear from the reference to tax forms that he's saying why not, she's just as inexperienced in that!
Fairly obvious to me that this is a joke.
Posted by: Sundog at October 22, 2005 08:16 PMCharles Krauthammer’s idea to gin up a dispute over the production of documents
Holy cow, did Harriet Meirs collect tapped phone conversations too?!
Posted by: melior in France at October 22, 2005 09:22 PM"By Limbaugh's logic she would also be eligible for Presidential ass-wiper."
Topic is her possible future job, not her current one.
Posted by: cynic at October 23, 2005 12:11 AM