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As Rush stated, this pick was made from weakness. And I add, by so doing, President Bush contributes to his own lame duckness.

If the nomination is defeated and President Bush picks a stellar nominee, he will redeem himself and reinvigorate his presidency.

I posted right after the nomination was announced that this pick showed me that the White House doesn't think it has the political capital, at this point in time, to pick the kind of fight that it would take ... I compared it to "going to the matresses" in "The Godfather" ... to get somebody like Janice Brown on the court.

Will pacifying the base ... which aside from this has been pretty much behind him through thick and thin ... actually give him any more capital with the people who get to vote on this, i.e. the U.S. Senate? That's the problem, we can holler until we're hoarse, but we still don't get a vote on this nomination. We can certainly say that by voting for the president, we expressed our desire as to what kind of SCOTUS justices he would appoint, we can threaten to bug out of the next election and stop contributing to the party, but it doesn't change the fact that being that this is a republic and not a democracy, he gets to pick and the Senate gets to vote.