Monday, October 31, 2005
Alito's In
In the Miers mulligan, President Bush appears to have driven near the green with pick Samuel Alito, Jr. to replace Justice Sandra O'Connor on the Supreme Court. A sound jurist with 15 years on the federal appellate bench (3rd Cir.) and apparently an originalist, Alito seems poised to satisfy the majority. The early buzz from conservatives is positive (Laura Ingraham is upbeat on air; Hugh Hewitt is happy (enough said); as is Michelle Malkin). If Ann Coulter has a problem with this choice, she's officially off the reading list as impossible to please. And the second best thing about this is that now the Plame affair indictment of Lewis Libby for lying about a non-crime is the old news story. Michael Barone all but calls this the event history will call the momentum changer for the Bush administration in its second term. He could well be right. I still wanted Brown, Luttig or McConnell.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:16 AM 
