The next Supreme Court pick
I'm still stunned by yesterday's committee vote on Roberts. We have the best qualified and least controversial nominee anyone could reasonably expect, and yet 5 of the 8 committee Democrats voted to deny him an up-or-down vote before the whole Senate. In addition, more and more Senate Democrats are announcing their opposition to Roberts, the latest being Hillary Rodham Clinton.
All of this telegraphs the following message to President Bush: "We will oppose whoever you nominate to the High Court. You will have a fight on your hands, regardless."
That's their prerogative, of course, but they shouldn't be surprised if Bush infers that he might as well go for broke. Under the circumstances, I'm hoping for either Michael Luttig or Janice Rogers Brown. (By the way, whatever happened to Richard Posner? It seems you never hear his name mentioned anymore in this context. Is he just too old now, or what?)