Yeah, he's conservative. What'd you expect? I think all the media speculation that W. would play nice with the Dems on this one was at best naive and at worst moronic. Why should he play nice?
Here's a lefty report on Roberts from his nomination to the Federal bench.
There were far worse dudes available--I thought, for example, that Bush would give Scaife gangster Ted Olson the nod. Am I pleased by John Roberts' nomination. Hell, no. But I didn't expect to be pleased.
[kudos to Aravosis]
