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"I recall that Bush said that he would appoint judges like Scalia and Thomas during his 2000 debate against al-Gore. I'm not terribly sure of the exact language (or which debate)."

He didn't. You are wrong. If you don't believe me, here is a url that will take you to a site that has transcripts of every debate:

http://www.debates.org/index.html

You ask "Did Bush mislead us?" I would say absolutely not. Bush has done exactly what he said he'd do. The fact that the RINO senators you mention and the conservative commentators the liberal media has suddenly decided to listen to can't verify that Miers is not exactly what Bush said he would nominate, means ZERO to me. Talking faces get paid to talk. I still don't know what Senators get paid for. But Bush will be the man held responsible for appointing Meirs. His record on appointing judges is solid all the way back to his days of being governor in Texas. I very much doubt he has decided to cash that in on this appointment.

I stand corrected. al-Gore (and the still duller Kerry four years later) accused Bush of trying to appoint justices like Scalia and Thomas, both much loathed (by the pro-death movement) for their vociferous opposed to the pro-death agenda and uncompromising pro-life stance.

AL-GORE: "And Governor Bush has declared to the anti-choice [or, more accurately, pro-death] group that he will appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who are known for being the most vigorous opponents of a woman's [so-called] right to choose [to commit feticide with impunity, and consequently advocates of the right of innocent babies to live]." (I added the bracketed information for clarity and context.)

Now, we all know that al-Gore never told a lie, subject of course to the typical proviso of the Standard of Truth, by which "it all depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is"--we should interpret "is" so broadly as possibly to mean "is not."

Senators get paid as professional athletes. Their sport is filibustering--giving extremely long-winded, extraordinarily pointless, sleep-inducing speeches intended to put their colleagues (and any insomniac Americans tuning to C-SPAN to cure their troubles) to utter boredom. It's a complex sport with draconian rules intended to impede and obstruct the President and a bizarre scoring system.