Let's pick a good one, shall we?

Reuters: Bush looks for new Supreme Court nominee---

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, after the stinging failure to get Harriet Miers on the U.S. Supreme Court due to a conservative rebellion, looked for a new nominee on Friday and aides expected him to announce his choice in a matter of days.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan ruled out an announcement while Bush was at his Camp David retreat. He was to return on Sunday afternoon. Officials said he was working from a short list of candidates and had not yet made a final decision.

As always, Bush's deliberations were being conducted with utmost secrecy on a choice that could shift the balance of power on the nine-member court.

Bush's pick for the lifetime appointment must be confirmed by a majority of the 100-member Senate, which is controlled by the president's Republican Party.

Goodness, makes us sound like dictators! And the Left generally likes dictators!

Democrats in the minority urged Bush to resist the demands of his conservative base and pick a mainstream candidate to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor, a moderate conservative and often pivotal swing vote on the divided court.

"The extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Miers nomination make it even more important that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor be replaced by a mainstream nominee, not by an activist who would bring an ideological agenda to the court," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to Bush.

AVOIDING A DEMOCRATIC REVOLT

McClellan signaled Bush would not conduct the same level of consultations with the Senate as he did for Miers and U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, since he already has received plenty of input from individual senators.

"We've had extensive consultations with members of the Senate," he said.

Besides, we tried that already and it didn't work!. You see, Libs, to the victor go the spoils and we've been the victor the last three elections.

After the conservative backlash against Miers, Bush's goal was to pick someone who could satisfy the Republican right while showing a mastery of constitutional legalities in a fair-minded way to avoid a Democratic revolt.

Who says the Dems can revolt? As long as the 7 RINOs who made the deal with the 7 Libs earlier this year stay in line, we can have whomever we want.

I vote for Ann Coulter. :)