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I would have been more impressed had Bush done something, anything effective on behalf of his appointments, especially Estrada, at a time when it was not obvious to the whole world that his base desperately required shoring up.

As it appears now, the ploy looks more cynically directed against us than against the dems. Federal judicial appointments are for life, not one year. Bush should have fought the Estrada nomination out on the spanish radio stations and really taken the dems resistence to the whole people. Why was the leaked memo not exploited?

Does he really think our perceptions are so shallow and our libidos so excitable that he can make it ok for the base with this fandango?

There is no punch here because the bulk of the electorate has not had the reasons for the interim appointments properly explained. This is symptomatic of the entire campaign fiasco. The hapless state of the union speech; appearing before Russert unprepared for prime time when we all warned him against such a danger; The President's Report on Jobs followed by staff remarks that we really don't know what we are talking about when it comes to creating jobs; the utter failure to field surrogates to support administration and President.

The list I fear will only grow daily. This is all to reminescent of his father's floundering in '92.