I reflect on the resignation of Justice O’Connor. The president had, just a month beore, selected a nominee for the Supreme Court. Yet he dithered before nominating Ms. Meiers.

Now that means one of three things. Either there was no second choice to the Roberts nomination, OR he was just messing with us, OR he was weak and indecisive about whether his Roberts backup was a good choice.

Any president worth a hoot has that supreme court pick list ready before he is inaugurated. You have one, so do I.

So if he had “already made” the Meiers decision- If Roberts fails, Harriet- why didn’t he just launch?

I never thought he was a genuine conservative, and I shudder to see how right that was. But I once thought he might turn out to be tough, direct, and decisive. I doubt that, too.

Dinocrat,
When things look dark I just hum……..
“you don’t count your money while you’re sitting at the table, there’ll be time enough for counting when the dealings done”.
Sent KUDOS to Thomas for the Crawford Kid post!
Welcome to the party of optimists. Why should he give the LSM and their Dem mouthpieces (reversed that on purpose as the LSM is the annointer of what DEM gets the soundbite) time to screw the plans up?

Shhhhhhh! we better whisper about this.

This is an extremely interesting analysis, based on the seemingly simple assumption (which I accept as true) that President Bush is neither an idiot nor afraid to confront Iran. BUT . . . where is the evidence that preparations of any type (military, international, domestic security, etc.) are being made to attack Iran? In today’s political and media environment, it would not be possible to keep such preparations secret, unless, perhaps, Bush is planning only a “surgical” operation that involves some cruise missiles and air strikes. I completely agree with you that a “moderate” attack would be a mistake. But are there any reports out there that suggest Bush is moving in any other direction?