Writing in Time, Mike Allen says the White House is planning to right the sinking Miers’ nomination by moving from what they call the “biographical phase” to the “accomplishment phase”. But reading Allen’s short piece suggests that the entertainment-cum-schadenfreude phase may have only just begun.
For one thing we have Karl Rove telling James Dobson that other much-beloved female conservatives rejected consideration “because the process has become so vicious.” The prospect of picturing Karl Rove bemoaning the vicious turn of the American political scene is almost enough to make you overlook the fact that the claim is almost certainly a lie.
In any case, the White House spin team is going to get things back on track by talking about “Miers’ experience dealing with such real-world issues as the Voting Rights Act when she was a Dallas city council member and Native American tribal sovereignty when she was chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission.”
Says one White Houser: “As the focus becomes less on who she’s not and more on who she is, that’s a better place to be.”
So things will look better when interest moves from her not being a qualified candidate for the Court to her being an unqualified candidate.
