So, Harriet Miers

So, essentially, Bush pretty much shot himself in the foot--with a rocket launcher. His no litmus test-wait-I'll backtrack-she is an evangelical Christian-but there still is no litmus test approach has really damaged his status among his base. He actually appoints someone with a bipartisan history, with a little- wait, I'll rephrase, with some miniscule smidgeon of what lab results may prove to be charisma, and he just has to make it clear to his cronies in right-wing PACs and interest groups that she is "one of them".

This is another chapter in what will be Bush's first bestseller, How to be Divisive and Undermine Democracy for Dummies. On a nomination that should have been a breeze, President Bush has trivialized the means by which Congress and the American public at large are to size up a judicial nominee.

This is a short one, sorry. Ernie Fletcher is an idiot.