Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead!

Surprise, surprise! The woman that said herself that if confirmed she would need a "crash course" in Constitutional Law has at least shown she is smart enough to avoid the embarassment of uniting the Democrats and Republicans in defeating her nomination. This is a good thing because she would have been the Michael Brown of this country's judicial system. It would have been Katrina all over reproductive rights, civil rights and environmental protection.

But what now? What a pickle Bush is in! He might actually have to sit down and actually think about who he should nominate instead of handing the job over to one of his cronies. Get someone too liberal or "unknown" in their decisions (assuming that they are judges) the conservatives will be up in arms. Get someone leaning too far to the right and the Democrats (if they still have a pair of balls between the lot of them) will raise hell, filibuster and drag Congressional business to a halt.

Maybe the strain will be too much on our fragile-minded president and he will start hitting that bottle again, God willing. At least then we'd have an excuse to impeach him. (As if starting a war on lies, letting thousands of poor people die in Katrina's floodwaters, stealing from the poor and elderly to give to the rich, destroying our environment and doing nothing about gas prices and our dependence on foreign oil is not enough reason.) Needless to say I will be waiting to see who the next nominee is.

At least its not this heiffer. She looks like she could scare the justice out of any legal proceeding.