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There are reports that the Administration is now afraid to go into court against the University of Michigan's offensive racial quota system that selects students from certain minority groups regardless of grades while rejecting white students with much higher grades. For 30 years the Republicans have opposed these quasi-quota schemes. Are we now going to throw in the towel because of the smear campaign against Republicans of the last two weeks?

That's bogus. This case has snaked through the system, it is sitting in the "inbox" for the SCOTUS, and it is a politically powerful and potentially divisive issue. If I correctly saw, the SCOTUS firmly requested an "Amicus Curae" from the Bushies, when they were ducking door knocks and phone calls from the start.

The Supreme Court jurists want to know the position, regarding THIS lawsuit, of America's Chief Executive Officer and his Admnistration. This is a tinder box. The SCOTUS Justices want to see the legal arguments ... for or against ... of Americas greatest lawyer, Solicitor General Theodore Olson. They know if Olson thinks the lawsuit is poorly lawyered, weakly substantiated, unwisely pushed and insufficiently supported by precedent or law ... he'll tell Bush it blows, and Bush will advise that the WH oppose the suit on its legal merits, regardless of the political allure.

This suit could be a rotting fish, just in its legal professionalism and appropriateness. If the thing reeks, Bush is best to throw it into the river and find a REAL, precedent setting reverse racism injury.

According to people with knowledge of the deliberations, a number of administration lawyers, led by Solicitor General Ted Olson, are eager to take a position against the Michigan programs. But the sources said Bush's political aides and White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales oppose an administration stance against affirmative action because it could impair Bush's efforts to woo Hispanics and other minorities to the Republican Party.

"Psssst .... always go with Ted in these matters."

The political weasels need to be gently grabbed by their muzzle and told to lay down in the laundry room as "bad boys" on this one. Hispanics don't give a crap about this case, and if they do, they're the entitlement junkies we'll never bring to our party anyway.

If Olson is behind this, let's get the engines started. It's a winner.