[Go Gordon]

By Bush picking Harriet and avoiding a fight, even taking a suggestion from Dirty Harry, maybe the strategery is to send a message that he won't offer up a far right winger. Hence, in the face of health problems, Justice Ginsberg won't feel compelled to hang in there until after the 2008 election. Consequently, Bush gets to pick another USSC Justice, and nominates a younger, proven conservative with a strict constructionism history at a lower court.

Just food for thought...

[Always Right]

John G. Roberts 50
John Paul Stevens 80
Sandra Day O'Connor 70
Antonin Scalia 62
Anthony Kennedy 62
David Souter 59
Clarence Thomas 50
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 65
Stephen Breyer 60

Stevens may be the most likely to retire, with Ginsburg coming in second. I doubt we will be so lucky though. I do wish Harriet was in her 40's.

[righteousindignation]

That is just what my deepest instinct tells me will happen, and my daily nonstop prayer is focused on just such a plan!