Erick at RedState.org writes this morning:
“Shell shocked,” “confused,” “stumbling,” “full of doubt.” These are all words I have heard used to describe the current White House effort to find Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement. Batchelder, Williams, and Owen have all been interviewed, but the process continues to sputter along.
I think it will be Attorney General Gonzalez. The President is convinced that AGAG. The President is convinced that his buddy is a conservative, and someone is trying to convince the President that the Court’s docket will allow AGAG to prove that he is a conservative by next year’s midterms, thus assuring that those in the activist base need not take up golfing.
Note that the left is preparing for this contingency, providing new Abu Ghraib material of a sudden. Back in 2002, Gonzalez, of course, wrote a memo regarding the Geneva Convention and interrogation techniques which the left will use to portray the nominee as an architect of unspeakable horrors and (cue Dick Durbin) death camps and killing fields.
I don’t think there is another John Roberts. I think that if there were another John Roberts, he would not be pounced upon by a minority which smells blood. With Gonzalez, they smell blood.
With some Chafee-Collins-Snow, the minority could amount to something. With a Specter, the minority could both stop Gonzalez and end Arlen’s term as Judiciary Committee chairman.
