Okay, so Harriet Miers has resigned. And now Charles Krauthammer is going to be insufferable to his friends and enemies, because he correctly called dibs on how the White House could “gracefully” get out of the nomination Nina Totenberg called a “disaster.”

Nina dished some dirt; apparently in the WH coaching sessions for Miers, they couldn’t even get her to speak up loud enough to be heard; let alone get her to answer questions in a manner that would reassure Senate Judicial committee members as to her fitness. A previous story filed by Ms. Totenberg had detailed that “she’d flunked the exam” regarding the questionnaire, and that the courtesy visits to senators had not gone well at all and would be stopped. They speculated then that her prep sessions weren’t going well, and that the White House might well have had to ask for a postponement of the hearings.

Of course, this frees up a spot for someone who’s not only a well-qualified federal judge, but well and truly palatable to the anti-choice, anti-privacy, anti-feminist religious Right. Which means the Democrats will probably open their big mouths without thinking it through, look stupid, and screw any chance of stopping the anti-choice train.