Friday round up

Miers gives Bush an assist
Harriet Miers is out. There’s a thing in basketball called an assist. That is where one player unselfishly gives up the ball to an open player for an easier shot at the basket. Bush tied to give the Senate an easy shot. They missed. Now Harriet Meirs has passed the ball to the president for a slam dunk. I’m still for the Janice Rodgers Brown v. Ted Kennedy - worthy of pay per view - show down. But Bush will find a not so controversial pick with clear Conservative credentials, which can be discarded right after confirmation. Oh yeah, it’ll have to be woman.

Lamestream Media targeted by al Qaida
Where’s Eason Jordan when you really need him. A former CNN big shot, Eason got into hot water when he suggested, without a shred of evidence, that the US military was targeting “journalists” in Iraq. Lex opined that the fact that there were still “journalists” stealing oxygen in Iraq was proof positive that Jordan was full of excrement. Had the military targeted “journalists” they’d all be dead. But al Qaida did target the blabbering class this week and you could almost hear the, “after all we’ve done for them” lament from the “journalist.” Because they remained focused on themselves, they missed the story…again. The attack was a colossal failure. The first car bomb was shot up and stopped short of its target. The next two could not navigate the rubble left by the first, and were also detonated well short of the target. The ensuing ground assault that was supposed to take over the hotel left the terrorist attackers dead in the street. But the context of the bombs going off was overshadowed by the spectacular pictures of…well…the bombs going off. Lost in the cool footage was the utter failure of this attack and the professional response of the Iraqi security forces. Our brave media, as our brave media is wont to do, tried to turn the attack into some kind of Wally Cronkite “we can’t win the war because the enemy has failed so miserably” Tet Offensive moment. It’s the pictures, not what happened, that counts. What happened was that the terrorists got their butts whipped…good.

Indictments today?
Who knows? It’d be cool if this whole thing was turned on the perpetrators. “The Justice Department today received sealed indictments on Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson - aka Lying Joe Wilson and Valerie (Flame – Plame – Wilson, pick one). Joe was indicted for being a pompous, lying ass. Valerie was indicted for running a covert CIA operation against the United States. Al Franken and Chris Matthews have been placed on suicide watch.” Not likely but what fun, if only prosecutors had a sense of humor.

Let me try to clear up what Senator Kay B. Hutchison said. She opined that she hoped that the prosecutor wouldn’t come down with an indictment on some minor charge, like perjury or obstruction. The Left gasped –HYPOCRITE!!! But she went on to define what she called perjury as simply forgetting something or the sequence of events that happened two years ago. Her mistake was using the words perjury and obstruction incorrectly. I agree with her. If the prosecutor comes down with an indictment because Libby or Rove didn’t know what the meaning of is is, then he’s a dope. If they lied or obstructed, then it’s so sad too bad. But he has to know that what he does is going to disrupt the government during a time of war. It’ll be closely scrutinized. Given the stakes, I’d hope that charges, if any, are substantial and clear.