How the charges against Libby could impact Bush’s Supreme Court pick and his relations with the right.
From Newsweek:
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It turns out Karl Rove may not be that distracted after all. Pulling the Harriet Miers nomination on the eve of the indictment in the CIA leak case was brilliant. Now that Scooter Libby has been indicted on five counts the Miers news gets washed over and President Bush can send up a real right-winger to gin up his base as the White House moves into crisis mode.
It was a political mistake for Bush to choose Miers. She was unqualified and didn’t meet the test on ideology that Bush’s base demands. After all the kowtowing Bush has done to the religious right, he must be really ticked that they wouldn’t accept a fellow evangelical. The question now is whether Bush will cave to the right to shore up his eroding base, or stick it to them with a quasi moderate, confusing history’s judgment of him but letting the right know he can’t be pushed around.
The betting is that Bush moves to the right to lock down his base.
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