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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Wouldn't it be fun to see him nominate Gonzales?

Trent Lott, charmingly paraphrasing Hitler's comment about the Armenians, remarked "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"

I've been wrong at every turn on this Supreme Court nomination, but I don't think President Bush is going to be inclined to reward those on his restive right flank for their impudence. Among other things, the Miers nomination may have reminded him that Roe is the other third rail of American politics, and hinted that it will be hard going for a nominee hostile to Roe. And now that the right flank has managed to veto Miers largely by focusing on her qualifications, it becomes much harder for it to sink the next nominee based on pure ideological dissatisfaction.

It would be perversely in keeping with the President's passive-aggressive tendencies for him to nominate Alberto Gonzales and watch with satisfaction as the right is forced to fall in line with the choice. I can see this happening just as easily as I can see him nominating one of the darlings of the Federalist Society, to which he more or less owes nothing. More likely, I think, the next nominee will be a not-so-well-known federal judge with unimpeachable credentials a la Roberts, neither a Souter nor a Luttig. I'll go way out on a limb and predict that he or she will fall short of Miers in the hairdo department.


posted at 11:16 PM

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