Don't beat yourself up, Gov. Bredesen

It appears ("Bredesen regrets letting judicial genie out") that Governor Bredesen is blaming himself for "opening a pandora's box" regarding the decades-old system of picking judges via secret, unaccountable lawyers' commissions. From the article:

With state lawmakers debating what to do with the Judicial Selection Commission, which is currently in wind down mode, Gov. Phil Bredesen said this morning that he regrets criticizing the commission in 2006 for not doing enough to promote diversity.

Bredesen correctly points out that the system does not fulfill its stated objective of diversifying the bench, but for some reason, that failure doesn't keep most diversity-focused politicians from supporting it. So, no harm done, Mr. Governor. As far as I know, nobody who supported commission-based selection of Supreme Court Judges has changed their opinion based on your criticism in 2006.

So, don't beat yourself up. Your kerfuffle isn't what is driving an overwhelming majority of Tennesseans to demand that the judicial commissions go bye-bye.