Unknown former Bush official could be the White House purchasing officer for the Chef’s Pantry. And which Conservatives? Buckley type conservatives who decry an activist foreign policy? Bucannon type conservatives who decry Bush’s open borders? Coburn type conservatives who oppose his ratcheting up spending on social programs? Robertson type conservatives who decry his failure to openly call for a complete end to abortion?

He’s been under fire from them since Day One.

That’s the problem when people believe the hype that a political party is a monlithic noise machine. It isn’t true for the Democrats and it isn’t true for the Republicans

http://www.nydailynews.com/11-17-2006/news/politics/story/472181p-397307c.html

For all the focus on the Democrats, a former Bush official who predicts a coming bloodbath between the White House and disgruntled conservative Republicans brushed off the Pelosi-Hoyer tussle as much ado about process.

“The Democrats are the sideshow,” he said. “Bush self-destructing is the big story in town.”

The problem is, as has been discussed on this blog and elsewhere, that the nutsroots didn’t win the election and they don’t know it. Pelosi, Murtha and their ilk still think that they, and not the centrist candidates of Rahm Emanuel won. The fact is that the change this election wanted was not one of politcal spectrum, but of whom will run the government.

Republicans were seen as wasteful, corrupt and inefficient. So the change was not so much as going down a new fork in the river of the politcs, we didn’t take the left fork, but rather who would steer America down the middle of the river.

And savvy political operatives like rat face James Carville know that the middle course…”common sense”…is what is wanted. Even Schmucky Charles Schumer has spoken of it. And smart politicians know that this was not the mandate the nutsroots claim, as does their propaganda organs like the LA and New York Slimes, and that this is just a trial marriage. They will not let the Party set itself up to be blasted the way Hillary did in ’94.

Nancy Pelosi can’t possibly be so foolish and out of touch as to think she can appoint Alcee Hastings after the shellacking she took over the Murtha blunder.

It’s crunch time and Pelosi’s got a choice, swallow her pride, reject the Black Caucus, and appoint Jane Harmon (or a third party candidate), or go full speed into the abyss, only to see her image and authority disintegrate into a laughable caricature of comic book proportions.

With a Hastings appointment, Pelosi’s position as Speaker would quickly deteriorate into a temporary and purely ceremonial ritual, with Steny Hoyer actually calling the shots while Pelosi stands around grinning and trying to look relevant.

Next, those Blue Dogs are gonna tear any kind of hegemony Dear Leader Nancy thinks she has into tattered dreams in record time. Anchoress is right about Rahm Emmanuel. Go back and look at the video of Pelosi’s nattering away about her boy Murtha. Rahm’s standing on the side, hands on hips, and his facial expression is screaming “Will you shut up and introduce Steny already, you loser!”

How would this fit in with her standing on the committee?