Timing Is Everything
Jan 25th, 2006 at 3:42 pm by Susie
And after all, there’s more than one way to skin a cat:
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday nominated one of the Justice Department’s lead prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe to a U.S. District Court seat.
Noel Hillman, chief of the department’s public integrity section, was nominated for the federal judgeship in New Jersey, where he served in the U.S. Attorney’s office under Michael Chertoff, now secretary of Homeland Security.
The White House was poised to nominate Hillman last summer, after New Jersey’s two Democratic senators took the opportunity to weigh in on Hillman and other nominees in exchange for lifting their objections to another candidate Bush had nominated in 2003.
White House press officials did not immediately comment on the timing of the nomination.
It’s called co-opting the opposition. “The Ugly American” was one novel that introduced me to the concept.
All you need to know is that this is BushCo’s plan to eviscerate the attack on his WH.
AND WHO IS BEING APPOINTED TO TAKE HILLMANS PLACE? SCOTT MCCLELLAN’S BROTHER??? ANOTHER SCANDAL IN THE MAKING.