Too Ready for Too Long to Back Down Now
My inbox exploded with e-mails this morning as perhaps yours did. The well-cocked guns of right and left, the complicated campaigns of liberal and conservative and the finger-tapping and finger-pointing legions long prepared for this fight have been set loose upon the Internet.
The starting gate's flung open, bells clanging, Bush has named his nominee to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s vacancy in the Supreme Court.
The John Roberts nomination, at first blush, looks as reasonable as one might expect of a very conservative president. No one could have expected a centrist; this president is not a representative of the center. According to a Washington Post editorial, before sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C., Roberts was among the country’s best-regarded appellate lawyers. Sounds like solid experience for sitting on what amounts to the nation’s highest appellate court. He’s not made a lot of ideological noise either on or off the court, a conservative with ‘admirers among libera…