You're smoking some good stuff if you think it was Miers and not the White House that pulled the plug on this. If she had 51 votes in the Senate, this wouldn't be happening, "constitutional crisis" or not.

I've thought all along that this nomination was a ploy to get an extremely conservative ideologue on the bench. If you nominate someone who's completely unqualified to serve and allow the opposition to shoot him/her down, it becomes that much harder for the opposition to then shoot down the next nominee because invariably he or she is vastly "better" because they're more qualified than the first. The comparison alone makes it harder to sway public opinion against the second nominee.

But I think the White House couldn't imagine that the opposition would come from within their own ranks. That part shocked a lot of people. And Democrats, in a rare moment, showed great intelligence in allowing conservatives to be the ones to take down Miers. By doing so, one would think that their bullet is still in the chamber, so to speak.

That's just what I think though. Yet after tomorrow, the entire game may change.