President Bush is going to announce his nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor tonight in a live prime-time press conference.

Ah, remember the good old days when disappointing Bush poll numbers were responded to with the announcement of a new color-coded terror alert level? Now that Tom Ridge went and spoiled that little trick Bush is forced to distract people’s attention with live prime-time announcements of information that could easily be released via press release. First it was the “9/11 We’re still workin’ hard 9/11 on the Global War on Terrah 9/11!” speech following his abysmal approval numbers.

Now with Karl Rove twisting in the wind and Bush forced to redefine what the meaning of “firing anyone who was involved” is, he goes to the live speech trick again, hoping to push Turd Blossom off the front page and get everyone excited over the next new Justice. His last attention deflection speech got his lowest ratings ever, so if he really wants this one to get the ratings and distract people’s attention, he should nominate Ellen Degeneres to the court. Nothing pumps up the Nielsens like a lesbian plotline.