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This guy is stretching it. He says what his real problem is in the first 95% of the piece. He wanted a war. He wanted a fight. He wanted to get the pound of flesh.

Instead the president nominated (we're told) a 3rd grade sunday school teacher from a fundementalist evangelical church who has served on church committees and reads the constitution as literal as she reads the bible.... and that's not good enough for him?

Replace the word "fight" with debate, or the word "war" with argument, and then you'll understand why this is such a phenomenally inept selection.

This was a national discussion that needed to take place.

It needed to occur after the Bork debacle-in fact, it would have been preferable if it had occurred before the nomination of Robert Bork-but it didn't.

The fact that Kennedy, Schumer, et. al. threatened to turn what would normally be a dignified process into a complete and utter circus-with their toadies in the D.C. press corps eagerly aiding and abetting their attempt at perpetuating this sort of idiocy and the defamatory charges that accompany it-is entirely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

The battle should have been joined, and it wasn't.

This will go down in history as one of the greatest missed opportunities of the Bush presidency.