{"id":219,"date":"2005-10-27T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2005\/10\/27\/miers-withdrawal-was-planned-on-the-day-she-was-nominated\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T04:06:08","slug":"miers-withdrawal-was-planned-on-the-day-she-was-nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2005\/10\/27\/miers-withdrawal-was-planned-on-the-day-she-was-nominated\/","title":{"rendered":"miers withdrawal was planned on the day she was nominated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ we used to think that harriet miers was nominated because, once she was rejected due to her incompetence and ignorance, the bush administration would be able to put forth a more radical nominee from the right-wing fringe whilst saying, &#8216;you can&#8217;t reject this asshole because i was already fair with the previous one&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>now that she has &#8216;dropped&#8217; out, we reckon that she was nominated despite her incompetence and ignorance because the administration knew it would eventually need a diversion in the news from the fact that members of the administration are about to be indicted by a grand jury. they expected the indictments this week, so they had her withdraw her own nomination in order to &#8216;pre-empt&#8217; the discussion about the charges. no indictments came out today, so there is a risk for the administration that the miers talk will wear off by tomorrow (just ask trent lott!), and there will be nothing else going on in the news tomorrow.  also, afterwards, the bush administration will be able to put forth a more radical nominee from the right-wing fringe whilst saying, &#8216;you can&#8217;t reject this asshole because i was already fair with the previous one&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ we used to think that harriet miers was nominated because, once she was rejected due to her incompetence and ignorance, the bush administration would be able to put forth a more radical nominee from the right-wing fringe whilst saying, &#8216;you can&#8217;t reject this asshole because i was already fair with the previous one&#8217;. now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-assholes","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}