This one's too easy.

George W. his own self serves up today's Boot Bush item on a platter.

Of all the right wing cranks he's tried to slip into lifetime federal judgeships, maybe the worst - almost certainly the most overtly racist - is Mississippi's Charles Pickering.

So who's the only one elevated through the back door mechanism of the 'recess appointment'?

Yeah, you got it.

Now, there's a reason for recess appointments. Sometimes a position must be filled, and if the Congress, for whatever reason, can't or won't, a temporary fix may be necessary. That's really not the case here. Bush has had plenty of time to find a reasonable, qualified alternative to the twice rejected Pickering.

As the New York Times editorializes today "That recess appointments are a perfectly legal device used by other presidents in the past does not make this appointment any more palatable. Mr. Pickering is absolutely the wrong choice for one of the nation's most sensitive courts."