I copied this from Matsu's blog on "Media Girl:"

If events of the last several days have confirmed anything, it is that George W. Bush is not very good at picking people. His popularity is plummeting. We needn't go into the Administration's failures, but his Presidency is in trouble.

Now New Orleans and his FEMA Director, "Brownie," who Bush says is doing a good job. Bush also said of Chief Justice Nominee Roberts, that Bush is confident in Roberts. If Bush is confident in Brown, are we heartened to hear about the confidence in Roberts?

There is something deeper going on. At one time the nominees to the Supreme Court were better known individuals - for better or worse. President Taft and Governor Earl Warren. Harlan F. Stone had been Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge. Certainly not all Justices have been in senior positions in public service and elected in their own right like Taft and Warren, but it does make them more accessible.

In recent years the nominees are ever more pale and it is like reading tea leaves to discern their views. If it were any other office, would a candidate be allowed "to take the fifth?" Appointing Justices has taken on Kafkaesque quality - that those under consideration are not well known nor are probing questions allowed for various reasons which I am not prepared to dispute. So be it!

Then let us choose as we once did from a pool of better known individuals who had performed in the center of the public arena, not its backwaters. Be it Orrin Hatch or Bill Clinton, nominate someone we know so that the confirmation hearings can move forward based on a known quantity.

The public has bought into the concept that only lawyers can interpret the Constitution, and while many of the framers of the Constitution were lawyers, not all were. Franklin was a printer. Washington was a planter.

In a time when the current President's judgment - George W. Bush is not a lawyer - is in question, we ought to have nominees of clear and unquestioned records.

Roberts may be a good man, we don't know, but now is not the time to take chances and gamble with another Bush appointee whose record is not very well established nor truly tested.

As it is, we are playing "Let's Make a Deal," and being asked to back another Bush ideologue who is the "man behind the curtain."

At this juncture, I suggest that is a move this nation should avoid.