considering the politics

Along with Miers' withdrawal, the Libby indictment makes me wonder where the Bush charisma and political leverage is now. How did he suddenly lose his coattails, making it seem unlikely that he can show up at any red states and guarantee victory for whomever happens to be running?

Then again, it's possible there will be a surprise that will put Bush in favor again. It wouldn't surprise me, given the five years we've already experienced with him. I'm just fatigued.

If Fitzgerald finds criminal intents in the higher order of the government, then it is a sign that the check and balance laid in the Constitution is still working, even if weakly.

Bush, in his grab for supremacy as president, in his belief that he can defy American treaties and the United Nations itself, in his divinity to allow torture of prisoners, in his creed that no one can defy a President as one would a defy an absolute monarch, in his nomination of both Roberts and Miers simply because they will affirm the power of the President over the Congress and the Supreme Court, will never look as weak and powerless as he does now.