Alito it is!

So, Miers does the President a favor by withdrawing her nomination. Thus begins the rehabilitation of the presidency. No one knows if it will be successful, and to be truthful, not everyone believes that rehabilitation is necessary - we must stand behind the man we elected, after all. However, Bush seems to have been alienating his base - the people who elected him, so maybe rehabilitation is appropriate, if not necessary.
I have to laugh at the fatuous (I knew I'd use it somewhere along the line since the challenge, and I think this is a particularly appropriate usage) hopes of the Democrats. Chuck Shumer was already on television this morning stating how he was so 'surprised and disappointed' that the President appointed a justice who will 'divide the nation' instead of 'uniting the nation.' I understand that Miers seemed rather like one of those justices, since she was recommended by Harry Reid and seemed (although, she never made it to the confirmation hearings, so we may never know for sure) to be like another O'Connor who seemed to decide a case based on the way the wind was blowing over China on a given weekend. Alito seems to be very qualified and capable of holding his own - I am really looking forward to the confirmation hearings.
A little background for those of you who may not have looked him up yet: he has been on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals since 1990. Appointed by Bush Sr., he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Let me repeat that: unanimously. Not only was he confirmed unanimously, but apparently, many of the Senators also made very, very approving, flattering comments about his impartiality and his ability to interpret the Constitution and how he would be the type of jurist the Americans deserve. Another very intersting tidbit - the Third Circuit is the Court through which Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 510 U.S. 1309 (1994), the case that affirmed the principle adopted by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1971), came. Judge Alito wrote the dissent in that case at the Third Circuit, his dissent was cited and quoted by Rhenquist's dissent at the Supreme Court level.
The Democrats are already discussing filibustering.
Let the confirmation games begin!