He should pick someone unknown to him? That logic got us Souter and O'connor.
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And who, if the howling mob manages to get Miers to quit, get removed by Bush or rejected in committee, will Bush appoint next? I would think that any sitting appeals judge would be loath to accept nomination. Not only will the nominee have to fight the RATS, they will have to watch for the knives in the back from their supposed friends including the dubious honor of being Borked by Bork.
Bush may appoint someone like Gonzalez, since Gonzales seems to have all the attributes the Miers-haters find lacking in Miers, a paper trail a mile wide and judicial experience to boot.
What's that you say, Gonzales is not in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, well that ship has sailed for this nomination, Bush selected, the pundits and Miers-haters rejected; time to move along. Bush isn't going to ask for trust again and I don't blame him.
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