  BUSH AND THE FMA--ROPE A DOPE? The alternate title for this post is "Worst Theory Ever by a Blogger," but here it is: Bush isn't serious about the FMA. He's proposed it, knowing or suspecting full well it won't pass but does it to placate the base and still an entire day of primary coverage from Kerry/Edwards. So he proposes the FMA to highlight the problem of activist judges and is really willing to accept some more of his judicial nominees as a compromise.
The means of doing this? By calling for the FMA so publicly, he can press on the Dems in the Senate to either put up or shut up. Bush basically says: "Ok, I'm going to FORCE you to take a position on the issue that has totally split your party. Or we can work something out--let's talk turkey, or Miguel Estrada. " As Gene Wilder would say: IT! COULD! WORK! 
