Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme’s. I’m not sure if I like this or not.

Don’t get me wrong here. There is only one person less qualified for the Court – me. She didn’t have the chops, but she also wasn’t a Dobson-loving, right-wing, science-hating minion.

That’s who we’ll get next.

With indictments on the way, half of the White House staff about to be measured for prison uniforms, the republican agenda stalled, a mounting death toll in Iraq, the President needs his grove back.

He’ll get his grove back by trying to get his splintered base back. I expect someone like Priscilla Owen to be next at bat. She has a proven pro-life record and she’s from Texas.

Priscilla Owen, if you remember, was the nexus of the “Gang of 14.” The 14 moderate Senator’s the banded together to make sure there was no filibuster on judicial nominees. Owen’s was what the left had to give up, since her nomination had been held up for three years.

Dobson, and his blind right, loves her. The left cite her as exactly the type of judge that shouldn’t be on the Court. That’s why she (or someone cut from the same cloth) will be nominated.

It will rally the right and start a firestorm. But oddly, that’s exactly what the right and Bush needs. They’ll control the conversation for once. The topic of discussion will be about values, and democrats have a history of losing on that topic.