[Alberta's Child]

Harriet Meyer’s was brilliant strategey.

Really? How do you figure that?

[Blue State Insurgent]

Before the SCOTUS vacancies, the lazy and apathetic GOP congress couldn’t even get the presidents lower court appointments approved in a timely fashion even though they were the majority. You would figure that they would be anxious to get down to doing the people’s business and start righting the wrongs of our justice system by returning sane, conservative justices to the federal courts but no, they were lazy, apathetic and not united.

So W nominates Meyers and, low and behold, the base rallies to the conservative cause and demands more conservative SCOTUS nominees.

W then gives them what we all wanted: the two most conservative Supreme Court nominees in a generation. The GOP is now gets what they wanted, are invested in the presidents picks and sees Alito and Roberts through without a hitch giving W what he had wanted all along.

In the parlance of Poker, Harriet Meyers was Bush’s throw away hand.