Bullish Bush
Is this possible? Bush nominates an unqualified crony lacking certifiable conservative credentials to be Associate Supreme Court Justice. The nominee is devoured by the right while the left holds on to their political capital, and money. The nominee is destroyed by the presidents own party giving him the opportunity to nominate someone else at just the moment that indictments come down. Now he's able to nominate a conservative which the press will see as politically necessary though regretful. This nominee is backed by a solidified GOP but abhored by liberals who are now forced to fight a two-front war against the nominee and indictments, and perhaps tax-cuts and Social Security reform. The nominee is resoundly defied by Democratic senators leading to a fillibuster showdown that the president wins. Thus leading to the following storyline: "President Bush won nomination for Priscilla Owens today after a brutal fillibuster showdown led to Senate Republicans using the "nuclear option" and bolstering the second-term of a presidency that had been tainted by charges of scandal and corruption."
Time will tell.