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Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nomination to the Supreme Court, has withdrawn her name from consideration. It was a tough battle and it did not appear she had enough votes to be confirmed. I was not happy or sad with her choice because it is the President’s and I respect that. Additionally, I am not happy or sad about her withdrawal. There was a great deal of politics involved and realistically, that is the way DC works.

Now let us think about the possibilities. Before Roberts was nominated a great deal of pressure was placed on the President to select a woman, a minority, or a person who had never been a judge and not necessarily even been a lawyer. Suppose President Bush asked some of the people whose names have been mentioned and they did not want the job. Now he wants a man or some ultra conservative. He knows that he can not pick the “wrong” person or he will catch it from both sides. So he and Miers work out a deal where he nominates her, she goes through a month of bashing and then withdraws citing the need to maintain confidentiality with the President. She can not disclose what they have discussed and the Senate will want to know.

Now, Bush is free to nominate anyone he wants. If he nominates a man and people say he should have nominated a woman he can tell them he did and she was rejected. He can nominate an ultra conservative and tell the Republicans, especially the RINOs, that is what they wanted so shut up and vote yes. He can have it anyway he wants it because Miers was his first choice.

Is this a real scenario? Who knows, but George Bush is craftier than anyone thinks.

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