[ArneFufkin]

That's why this attitude of "I cannot divulge how I would rule on any case that might be brought before me" during confirmation hearings is no longer acceptable. That's how David Souter the cowbird cruised through the process. He didn't know nuthin' bout nuthin'. The Democrats knew. The GOP Senators and H.W. Bush just accepted that ole John Sunnunu wouldn't skin them alive. Sununu is on my "s" list forever, he was the worst thing to EVER happen to the GOP.

Bush's daddy was an honorable man, but he had no clue how to staff, and enforce discipline among, his Cabinet and advisory staff. That's how guys like Souter happen, that's how tax increases happen and that's how he's thrown into a grocery line where he has to prove he knows how much a quart of milk costs. That's how lies about the economy become accepted. That's how a clinically insane meglomaniac like Ross Perot gains credibility. The David Souter nomination will injure us for 20 years hence. That guy was 47 and lived with his mother in her house when he was deemed the rising superstar of jurisprudence. What a gaffe. Sununu was being threatened by the Dixie Mafia, or on Perot's payroll I swear.

Mary Matalin was inner circle. James Carville was Clinton's inner circle. They married soon after the election. That's all you need to know.

[esopman]

Your three paragraphs deserve a thread of their own.

The level of strange naivete, wussiness and just plain compromise at the heart of most Republicans trivializes the imagination. I fear that our Republic is in very deep weeds...certainly from a true Constitutional perspective. I used to believe that a turnaround was possible. No more.

At the risk of winning runner-up status in the Freeper tinfoil hat Oscars - I believe that the Matalin/Carville linkage is a type, a paradigm, and most emblematic of the ultimate spiritual bond between the "Two Parties."

[Domestic Church]

" That's how David Souter the cowbird cruised through the process. He didn't know nuthin' bout nuthin'. The Democrats knew."

Time to fight fire with fire and use these same tactics...develope a pseudoliberal/pseudomoderate cadre for the future bench.

[StriperSniper]

That guy was 47 and lived with his mother in her house when he was deemed the rising superstar of jurisprudence. What a gaffe. Sununu was being threatened by the Dixie Mafia, or on Perot's payroll I swear.

Or Mrs. Souter begged Sununu to get him an out of town job. ;-)