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You're right, my general grumpiness is effecting my memory (kids tell me it's my age). Still pissed at Bush about that whole Meirs fiasco, but yes the Roberts nomination was already in progress at that point.

Thanks for acknowledging that my point is correct. However, the nomination of Harriet Miers was not a "fiasco." It was simply the President exercising his own opinion re his Constitutional nominating powers. When the nomination failed, he could have nominated someone similar to her. Instead, he nominated the staunchly conservative Sam Alito.

By the way, Chief Justice Roberts was confirmed on September 29, 2005, and was sworn in three hours later. Justice Samuel Alito was nominated to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on October 31, 2005, a month after Roberts was sworn in.

Apparently many conservatives think the President is not entitled to his own opinions. They apparently also are immensely uncharitable and rigidly unforgiving even after they wage a winning political battle.

Harriet Miers is a very good human being, a life-long Republican who has led a sterling life filled with achievement. Simply because she was deemed by conservatives to be unsuitable for the Supreme Court does not qualify her to be continually seen as an ogre by conservatives in perpetuity. Similarly, conservatives ultimately got two youthful, exceptional justices in Roberts and Alito, and yet they still bitch and whine years later simply because they had to fight a political battle to replace Ms. Miers as the nominee. This trait many conservatives share is an ugly one, and one that I wholeheartedly repudiate.