Article in today's Washington Post on how convenient these decisions are for the Republicans:
Court That Liberals Savage Proves to Be Less of a Target . As I heard somebody (Jonah Goldberg?) say on one of the talk shows today, I suspect Karl Rove is overjoyed.
Matter of fact, I wonder if that explains the number of new posters showing up here on FR these days to praise these decisions. Last time I remeber something like that happening is when the White House was after Trent Lott. (At least the new posters of that time quickly went away after the flap was over. Maybe that will happen again.)
The Rats can always scare their yellow dogs by saying, "several justices are going to be appointed soon, we may not get rulings like this if the Republicans appoint more Scalias or Thomases".