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What still nags at the back of my mind - if Miers was the point person for vetting candidates for the SCOTUS and also in consideration for the position, isn't that a total conflict of interest? "We can't find anyone, Mr. President, aside from myself."

The story floating that someone backed out over the weekend and Andy Card pushing Miers to take the slot sounds most reasonable at this point. They self imposed a deadline of that Monday to announce and didn't feel that they had enough time to fully vet another candidate...

Of course, this begs the question to be asked - why not? Someone should have assumed that at some point in eight years that Bush would be making a nomination or two, and they should have had a thick file full of folks already vetted and ready to step forward. I don't like the reactionary implications here.

This nomination, and the people that blindly support it, are no different than the RATS who condoned Cigar Boy's behavior.

Its party over principal.