Worst week yet

From the Times:

The biggest question for Mr. Bush now is what he can make of the 39 months remaining in his presidency. For this horrible week has been months - even years - in the making. The 2,000th American fatality in Iraq was just the latest daunting milestone in a war that will soon be three years old. The C.I.A. leak investigation that threatens to indict a top White House aide or two on Friday grew out of the fierce debates over the flawed intelligence that led to that war.

And Harriet E. Miers's withdrawal of her nomination to the Supreme Court is the bitter fruit of Mr. Bush's own frailty in the wake of all those storms - and Hurricane Katrina - and of his miscalculations about how her appointment would be received.

Lou Dobbs said the same thing on CNN last night - that this is the worst week of the Bush presidency. I guess that's right politically - I mean, being forced to withdraw a supreme court nominee always kinda sucks, but having to do it because people in your own party don't like her has really got to smart. Looks to me like Republicans in congress smell the blood in the water. But I'm not so sure this is a good thing.

I didn't trust Harriet Miers to turn out well. She seemed too inexperienced to be anything near predictable, and the wink and nod thing could have been true. But I really don't trust the people who opposed her nomination so vociferously to make a better choice - they want an anti-choice robot who will have no qualms about drastically changing our law by overturning Roe and Griswold.

For as bad as Bush is, there are people in congress that I prefer him to. Maybe we need to take down delay before we utterly destroy the Bush presidency, lest we loose his (even slightly) moderating effect on our political establishment.