Two new stories from today. The first is that President Bush named his pick to be Sandra Day O'Connor's successor. White House lawyer Harriet Miers is his woman. But Miers presents a problem. First, she has no judicial experience. She has never served as a judge at any level of government, and as a result, we have no idea what her past rulings would be. Then again, thirty years ago, Richard Nixon nominated a man who also had no judicial experience to be an associate justice. And that man's name was William Rehnquist. And now you know ... the rest of the story.

Story number two is that the charges against Tom DeLay are so baseless and frivolous that he has been indicted on another charge, this time for money laundering. The money laundering charge comes stems from the fact that DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority, routed money through the RNC in Washington in order to get it from corporations to Republican candidates for the Texas legislature. It is illegal, under Texas law, for corporations or labor unions to donate money to candidates.