[Huck]

I agree with you that all the options look bad at this point. I was talking about before he picked Miers. If he picked Miers to avoid a fight, obviously that has been a disasterous miscalculation. Now there is no face-saving way to back out, and even if she gets whacked by the Senate, the president can't nominate one of the justices he overlooked without appearing to be capitulating to his base. My point is, he got a fight either way. Had he or his team been smart enough to see that coming, then he could have picked the fight with the bad guys instead of with us. But I think this pick just shows what the president is truly made of, and that's not a compliment.

[kingu]

[...]the president can't nominate one of the justices he overlooked without appearing to be capitulating to his base.

When did this become a crime, if I might be so bold to ask? Golly, doing what the people who elected him want him to do - isn't that what our elected representatives are supposed to do? Be the voice of the people? This is still a republic, isn't it?

My prediction, and I'm really bad at these, is that Miers goes through the confirmation hearings, a lot of squawking happens on both sides, but by a narrow margin she is passed on to the Senate which gleefully sends her on with a 90-9 vote. The swing-set is filled once again.

[art vandelay]

"I think this pick just shows what the president is truly made of, and that's not a compliment"

With comments like this, The DU'rs are bustin a gut. Its one thing to hear libs talk about GW that way, but we're on the same team. It's one thing to accuse us GW supports of drinkin the kool aid, but Im' tired of conservatives forming a circle firing squad.