“But for almost two decades it has been clear that he is out of his depth. The troubling thought is that the president who is about to nominate Justice Souter’s replacement is out of his depth, too.”
We are in deep doo-doo. BO woll nominate the equivalent of Barney Frank to the post. I have cursed Bush many a time for nominating this empty suit of a SC judge.
Surely, Tyrrell is referring to the unsettling, trash-culture works of Walter and Margaret Keane. A truly skilled Mencken imitator would have included the now-obscure reference.
Is it just me, or does Tyrrell's prose of the past few years seem to be of a lower quality than his writing from the 70s, 80s, and 90s?
he pleased them enormously by his 19 years of tergiversations against conservative jurisprudence
There are at least 2 words there that very few denizens of the liberal trash heap will ever understand
tergiversation: The act of turning one's back; abandoning something or someone; betrayal.
Souter IS, indeed, a joke. He is also an embarrassment to what NH once was and no longer is.
NH is now mASSachusetts North. Full of tax fugitives from the surrounding states, all hell bent and on an all but irreversible path to re-make this state into a copy of the hell holes they left. They KNOW its wrong, they KNOW they shouldn’t be doing it, but they just can’t help themselves. It’s what the ‘learned’ from their teachers, parents and their worshipped corrupt politicians. They are unable to stand on their own two feet. Sad, very, very sad.
Eschew obfuscation.
Unfortunately the likelihood of replacing him with a professed liberal who is really a quirky most-of-the-time conservative is virtually nil. That species is pretty much extinct.