I think that it's safe to say that our President's eyes have been opened to just how activist/liberal/and flaky our current SCOTUS has become.
Like Bush, I would have lost good money betting that the SCOTUS would have easily overturned the most egregious parts of CFR...and then suddenly they didn't. O'Conner bolted and gave the 5-4 victory to the Dark Side.
So the bad news is that CFR got ruled to be legal.
The good news, however, is that the SCOTUS today told all involved parties to this case that they wanted them to come back with evidence of damages of CFR against 1st Amendment rights. I think that it's safe to say that such damages can and will be shown by the NRA, Senator McConnell, as well as even the ACLU. So the SCOTUS may yet overturn this beast.
Other good news is that President Bush has now seen the SCOTUS' true colors. This sort of gamble will never be made again with the current SCOTUS justices.
And this may even gain enough public momentum to force Congress to repeal CFR on its own. That's what we need to pro-actively, positively work toward. Far too many Bush-bashers (not you) have taken this opportunity to pile onto the President. That's not productive, that's venting or agitating.
Reasonable people thought that the SCOTUS would overturn this thing. Who knew?! Well, now we all know not to trust them.
And that goes double for the idiots who are trying to force the Court to take a new 2nd Amendment case now, rather than wait until Bush can reshape the SCOTUS with some new appointees. Ditto for those trying to ram through anti-abortion cases with these Justices still in their robes.
We can't risk sending our other cases up there until after we change the makeup of this Court, something that isn't going to go our way if Dean, Hillary, Clark, or Gephardt weasels into the White House next year.
