Gotta give Bush credit for not repeating one big mistake of his father: Souter.
And give us credit - and some of the conservatives in the Senate - for not tolerating the possibility of Harriet Myers. Dingy Harry and Upchuck Schumer liked her. That was enough for me to say, "not only 'no', but '**** no'!"
So what happened next? The President nominated Justice Alito, liberals hated him and made his wife cry, and he was confirmed in the Senate by the virtual equivalent of 5-4.
A great reason to vote for Conservative Republican presidents and conservative Republican senators (and representatives). A vote for a Democrat, no matter how 'conservative' is a vote for Pelosi and Reid, for constitutional rights for terrorists at Gitmo, life for child rapists, and against the Constitution to which ALL of these elected officials (and unelected judges) swore an oath.