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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Counterpoint - from a reader on the Corner:
"This strikes me as a good thing for Bush. O'Connor was always going to be harder to replace with a real conservative justice than Rehnquist was. And one has to think that the Democrats' plan was probably to let a conservative through to replace Rehnquist, so as to look reasonable to the public, and then send the assassins after whoever Bush named to replace O'Connor.
Now that O'Connor has resigned first, it will be harder for the Democrats to go hard after her replacement, because they won't have another nominee to point to and say, "We confirmed this one, we just don't like this second one."
(Of course they'll still try. This is going to be a bloodbath.)"
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We'll see which side is right--I can certainly understand that perspective. The opponents haven't been worn down yet, and there's no splitting the opposition this way on "do we use our powder now or later".
