The wailing! The gnashing! The rending of garments! If 
    the conservative reaction to Harriet Miers is any 
    indication, Bush has no chance of winning a third term. 
    The decision to appoint a relative unknown – or, given 
    her proximity to the Bush inner circle, an unknown 
    relative – has caused many on the right to open a vein 
    and the let the despair flow out into the warm bath of 
    misery, disappointment, and overextended metaphors. Why 
    didn’t Bush clone Scalia in a dish and appoint him? Here, 
    use some stem cells if you have to. Anyone but another 
    Souter!