A number of people have suggested that Alberto Gonzales, not Harriet Miers, deserves credit for Bush’s conservative judicial nominees. Gonzales was head of the WH counsel’s office when most of the nominees were sent up, so that makes sense. But most close observers have suggested that it was Tim Flanigan, Gonzales’s number two, who did most of the vetting. I’m further told that Miers has been more hands-on than Gonzales was. Make of it what you will.