Want to read something truly scary? Put down the Stephen King and try some James Dobson. Go ahead--I'll wait.
My favorite part is where he says:
"What did Karl Rove say to me that I knew on Monday that I couldn’t reveal? Well, it’s what we all know now, that Harriet Miers is an Evangelical Christian, that she is from a very conservative church, which is almost universally pro-life, that she had taken on the American Bar Association on the issue of abortion and fought for a policy that would not be supportive of abortion, that she had been a member of the Texas Right to Life. . . .
"[but] Karl Rove didn’t tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court.
"We did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the Court. I did not ask that question. You know, to be honest, I would have loved to have known how Harriet Miers views Roe v. Wade. But even if Karl had known the answer to that and I’m certain that he didn’t, because the President himself said he didn’t know, Karl would not have told me that. That’s the most incendiary information that’s out there and it was never part of our discussion."
Please. This kind of dissembling is right up there with "I didn't leak Valerie Plame's NAME . . . I just leaked that Joe Wilson's wife was CIA, so that doesn't count." Or, "It depends on what your interpretation of the word 'is' is." Come ON people.
My other favorite part was where Dobson said he'd gone for advice and counsel to Chuck Colson. Any bells ringing here for those of us old enough to remember the 70s (or at least the Redford/Hoffman rendition of them)? Yeah. Chuck Colson is a felon who served time for obstruction of justice committed while serving as White House Counsel to Richard Nixon. How charming. A few months ago when the notorious "Deep Throat" Watergate source was revealed to be Mark Felt, Colson was quoted "disapproving" of Mr. Felt for his disloyalty to Nixon.
According to Colson, telling the truth is BAD, breaking into offices and stealing information/bugging is GOOD, lying to the American public that pays your salary is FINE, as long as you are being loyal to someone--even if they are corrupt and committing crimes. OK. Golly, I can totally see why people would call this guy for ethical advice.
WTF is going on in America today??? I want my rational reasonable non-religion-soaked country back!!!
P.S. Did anyone catch Laura Bush popping out of one of her tea parties to comment that the criticism of Ms. Miers sounded like sexism to her? When did Republicans start believing in sexism again? I thought they'd announced (probably on the flight deck of a ship just outside San Diego harbor) that racism and sexism have been magically eradicated, so we don't need those pesky affirmative action programs (not to mention Title 9) that threaten to keep Biff and Skippy (or was it Scooter?) from taking their rightful places in the beer-soaked fraternities of America's finest universities.
