Returning to Where it all Began

Well, you can say one thing about Bush: he does not forget his friends. With Bush announcing yesterday his choice of John Roberts for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat, Bush has once again proven that he will always put party before principle, but that he will reward old friends, too.Roberts is a partisan hack who went to bat in Florida 2000 for George W. Bush.

Chris Bowers notes that not only did Roberts work for Bush in Florida, but he's a former associate of Ken Starr.

But even sadder in this whole figure is that the Bush White House has essentially admitted that they moved their timetable up to cover up the Rove scandal. Now, the media is not only going along to get along, they are publicly admitting that they are doing something. If I publicly said that I was going to use smoke-and-mirrors to confuse you, wouldn't you put your guard up. And in the age of multiple 24 hour news networks, can't we cover two stories at once? Especially when their idea of Supreme Court reporting is to tell us that Roberts is ambidextrous? From what I can tell, ambidextrous in this case only means he can talk out of both sides of his mouth.

--Matt Singer

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