I'm with Digby on this one. Brad's proposed trajectory for the Supreme Court fight -- Bush nominates lunatic, Democrats filibuster, Bush withdraws lunatic, nominates crazy, Democrats celebrate bipartisanship -- strikes me as wrong. Bush doesn't want to lose round one of this fight. Maybe if he was still riding 58% approval ratings he'd give it a shot, nominating the nuttiest necromancer he could find, but at 43% he's going to try and stroke his base while wedging Democrats into an impossible position. How do you do that? Nominate a hardline conservative wrapped in an electorally important minority. Hence, Emilio Garza.
