Don't believe the hype
"Surely, like many on the Left, I knew it was too much to hope that the precarious ideological balance of the current U.S. Supreme Court bench could survive, till such time as the inauguration of Hillary Rodham Clinton as the nation’s forty-fourth President," writes TCF. "However, the disastrous, last eight months of Bush’s second term have proven to me that this is not the fight over Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement everyone is gearing up for.
If you’re one from the Left adamant that the White House will select from the Conservative fringe, relishing a fight of Borkian proportions, then you’re just as delusional as any from the Right who still believe Bill Frist has the votes to trigger 'the nuclear option,' if needed..." (ThatColoredFella)