Doof Quote of the Day

Posted on 05/06/2009 at 3:19 pm by Bob Cesca

“I was part of a five party committee that spent years at the White House under President Bush preparing for the moment of the Supreme Court vacancy. We had thick notebooks on all prospects. We had everything from all of their writings and opinions to college transcripts to tax returns to, you know, charity dinner speeches, you name it. We had it. We studied those. It was why it was possible three months after a vacancy occurred to have Chief Justice John Roberts confirm to the Supreme Court.” —Karl Rove

Even with all of that preparation, Rove and his awesome vetting committee still came up with this nominee?

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  • fe

    maybe they hadn’t seen her unsigned note.

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Fe – maybe they did and that was the deciding factor in selecting her.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Yeah claiming to have done all of that to prepare and then pulling meirs out of their collective asses is suspect.

  • http://www.sigzone.blogspot.com MG

    Ummmm… From everything I’ve heard and read, Miers was entirely the Chimp’s doing. She wasn’t even on his insiders’ short list. It was just another one of his embarassing “go-with-your-gut” fuck ups.”Hey, I see Cheney. He’s tryin’ to find some good men to be mah VP, but he looks like a good man his own self. I choose him.”"Hey… This woman here says Ah’m the ‘smartest man’ she ever done known. She deserves a Supreme Court spot.”

  • http://www.sigzone.blogspot.com MG

    By the way, Miers LITERALLY said that he was the smartest man she ever met, which automatically disqualified her (on top of everything else).

  • http://www.xkcd.com/ ∇•B=0  Silly Ratfaced Git  ∇•D=ρ

    @MGWTF? Did she only hang out at titty bars?

  • fe

    MG, Silly, I refer you to this.

  • http://www.xkcd.com/ ∇•B=0  Silly Ratfaced Git  ∇•D=ρ

    TY fe. That was most excellent.

  • D. C.

    Miers was picked precisely because she’d never had a thought of her own emerge from her head. Bush wanted somebody like Clarence Thomas, who just votes however Scalia votes. The expectation was that Miers would vote exactly along GOP party lines in every case. In other words, just the way Scalia votes.