From a Feminist Majority release:

President Bush today nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Sandra Day O’Connor. “The good news is that Bush appointed this time a woman to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. “It took two tries, but he finally got that part of the equation right…

Guess what though? That gets the White House….nothing.

Instead of some overwrought, ridiculous letters expressing disappointment that the president didn’t appoint one of his twins to the Court, he’ll get some silly applause that he sent a positive, encouraging message to what you would get the impression are helpless, otherwise hopeless professional legal women across the country. Both reactions are dumb. And both will get the president nowhere in the end. Though I bet some professional legal women were a tad insulted by the insinuation they need a quota policy to even fill a high Court seat.