The president tried to make his wife happy, but it turned out that making her happy caused him to commit one of the most egregious misjudgements of his presidency and lose the respect of a great many of his supporters. Whether he can get that respect back, given the apparent loss over the past year of his formerly reliable political instincts (his only strong suit), is anybody's guess.
It will help if in the next few weeks he comes up with a credible nominee for the most important nomination he will make in his life.
Dick Durbin, one of the most liberal members of the Senate and a man partial to calling American soldiers "Nazis," just said on the NewsHour that the four words most often heard in Democratic circles when the Miers' nomination was discussed were, "It could be worse."
Keep that in mind when you hear Harry Reid's pal Harriet Miers defended by the hairpullers here on FR. The most liberal members of the Senate were content with her.