The Agenda

[Note: This letter was originally published in The Agenda #15]

Dear President Bush,

So I guess it's official, Samuel Alito is
your man for the Supreme Court. OK. That's your prerogative, I guess. I mean, I
don't want to tell you how to do your job here, but I just thought ... well, I
don't know, I kind of thought that maybe after the whole Harriet Miers thing
didn't work out that you would ... I don't know, kind of look my way. I'm not
saying that I necessarily expected the nomination per se, but I just
feel like it would have been nice to know that you at least gave it some
thought, that maybe I stood a chance. The least you could have done was give me
a little heads up so I didn't have to find out from the media. That's not too
much to ask, is it?