Looking for Someone to Blame

Time Magazine reports chief of staff Andrew Card gets the credit for the Miers nomination:

According to a presidential adviser who has been briefed on the chronology of the decision, senior adviser Karl Rove was less involved than he is in most major decisions.

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The driving force was chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr., who took over the vetting role. "This is something that Andy and the President cooked up," the adviser told TIME. "Andy knew it would appeal to the President because he loves appointing his own people and being supersecret and stealthy about it." Relations between Rove and Card have always been strained, and this adviser said the nomination has reignited the tension. Another Republican involved said it reflected Bush's isolation. "Somebody just like her should have told him, 'Mr. President, no. This is a mistake.' But he picked the picker, so there was no one there to tell him no."

Designating Card to be the sacrificial lamb for the Miers mess won't stop the conservative rebellion.

[The Two Knocks on Miers]

Comments

[biggovgop]

Gordon,

The reason is that the hearings don't show much. And this politically suicidal move needs to be stopped way before then. The Administration is obviously in meltdown mode over things like legal troubles and falling poll numbers, as well as the fact that adult supervision seems to have gone elsewhere or been out with surgery or something.

I feel sorry for her, and she would have made a reasonable choice for a lower court, but this is a needless blunder.

[Gordon Jones]

You people are starting to sicken me. Why don't we let Ms. Miers speak at her hearings before sounding like the moronic liberals, okay?