I agree. Solidly. Fully.
When I heard that President Bush was announcing his choice during Prime Time (rather than sneaking someone in at 5:30 on a Friday), I posted that a Prime Time announcement meant that GWB was *picking* a fight with the Dems.
This is in-your-face politics, and I love it!
Stevens is old, by the way. Ginsberg is ailing. Rehnquist will soon retire. At a minimum, President Bush will place 4 new Justices onto the SCOTUS.
Young justices, too. By 2008 we'll see a court makeup that won't change ideologically for 30 years...possibly longer.
See the post following yours: the Dems are utterly beyond reality. They think, somehow, that a non-existent leak to a reporter who then lied about Joe Wilson who lied is somehow going to translate into damaging . . . Bush??? This is akin to praying that someone on the Dallas Cowboys breaks a leg because it will cause Shaquille O'Neal to miss a free throw. I mean, it's incomprehensible how much they now have invested in the Rove non-story!