Republican heavyweights are scrambling to hold their team together after the President’s nomination of someone whom no one other than President Bush seems to want. Republican National Committee Chief Ken Mehlman finally laid out the rationale for the right as to why they should be jumping for joy at Bush’s selection.

Tom DeLay thinks he can beat one indictment and be back at his Majority Leader helm in no time. But news is now just out that DeLay has been indicted by a separate grand jury on a different charge — this time, money laundering.

Sources say today that the Jeffrey Gedmin announcement will be made soon, probably within days. Since TWN first posted the news that Gedmin would join John Bolton’s senior team at the U.S. mission to the United Nations, we have been deluged with emails in support of and opposed to Gedmin.

This is very strange politics. Reid seems to be on board as one of Harriet Miers’ chief advocates. Click here to see Harriet Miers and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.

Now the question is whether the Dems should just declare victory and call it a day regarding the Supreme Court — or whether there should be serious, open-ended deliberations about Miers’ views and qualifications ahead.

Air America Radio’s Al Franken Show producer Ben Wikler has done a great job of documenting David Frum “moving the target” on Miers: David Frum, former White House speechwriter, has come down hard against Miers. From his blog at the National Review: Harriet Miers is a taut, nervous, anxious personality.

President Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the vacant Associate Justice position on the Supreme Court. Bush had this to say about Miers: This morning, I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Harriet Ellan Miers to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

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If you folks are checking in now. . .talking to Sam Seder on Air America Radio’s Majority Report about David Dreier’s problems rising to the top — and Jeff Gedmin’s ascension as John Bolton’s Deputy at the United Nations.

TWN has just confirmed that Jeffrey Gedmin (see post below) will be named as John Bolton’s No. 2 at the United Nations and will carry the formal title of “Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations.