BUSH IS A RACIST!

No no no, it's not what you think.

Sure, you can make that argument regarding his recess appointment of cross-burning apologist Charles Pickering to the Federal bench. I don't think Bush is an out-and-out racist, as in that he hates people of other colors. However I do think that Bush really likes the votes he gets from hideous racists, and whether that's just as bad is a judgement call for you to make. (I think it's pretty damn bad)

But here's the more interesting way to make the Bush=racist argument. He used his executive power to appoint Pickering to the bench during the congressional recess . . . instead of renominating and appointing Miguel Estrada! Remember the mock-outrage the right showed against Senate Democrats for holding up his nomination, calling them "anti-hispanic"? This disingenuous vitriol shot out of such holes-in-the-earth as the Washington Times, the WSJ editorial page, the Weekly Standard, and notably the National Review, particularly their blog, The Corner.

So guys, where's your outrage now??? Bush spent his political capital on someone else, instead of Estrada! Why didn't h-- Oh, what's that you say? Bush is a Republican? Ohh, I get it.