Well, since Harry says so!

AP: GOP Urges Bush on High Court Nomination

Rightfully so. After all, we did elect the President two consecutive times and got him a majority in the House and Senate.

Of course, Harry Reid doesn't think so. He still believes he has a say.

With the expectation that Bush probably will turn to a sitting judge, it was Alito's name that was mentioned often on the Sunday talk shows.

A judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito has been dubbed "Scalito" or "Scalia-lite" by some lawyers because his judicial philosophy invites comparisons to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's.

"That is not one of the names that I've suggested to the president," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told "Late Edition" on CNN. "In fact, I've done the opposite. I think it would create a lot of problems."

Reid said Bush would be making a "mistake" were he to settle on a hard-liner simply to appease the far right in his party, especially after conservatives' wrath undermined Miers' nomination.

Sorry, Harry! You weren't invited to the party, so don't think you can dictate the attendees.

Making judgements based on what the Constitution actually says, as opposed to creating "rights," doesn't create problems. Liberal activist judges create problems by making up new "rights," such as abortion and gay marriage.

We don't need more problems like those.

And, another thing, "conservatives' wrath" did not undermine Miers' nomination. Her lack of qualifications did that.