I'm a Super Right Wing Fanatic for Christ and I personally destroyed Harriet Miers... No, and neither did anyone else. It was a combination of Moderate Conservatives like George Will, the Guys at National Review and Weekly Standard, plus a ton of bloggers voicing their opinions; there was also supposedly "extreme Right" people like Rush, Coulter, Hannity, etc. and the combo was too much pressure.

Will this hurt Bush? Not necessarily, remember that the Senate destroyed FDR's attempt to "pack the court" in his second term and he was reelected two more times. However it might be noted that FDR read the tea leaves and probably had to keep us out of WWII til we were attacked because the Congress would have castrated him had he allied us with England; after the packing fiasco he knew they would and could.

Bush now knows the same thing, it's how he handles it that counts. Only disturbing thing about the process is the "buzz" that Laura Bush insisted(s) on a woman and Bush caved. But more to the point is that we have a completely gutless Republican Senate and a cowardly bunch in the House. Face it, we have elected weaklings, no it's greedy weaklings, who stand for nothing other than the next pork.