WSJ.com - Roberts Stands Chance To Split Democrats

I'm still sort of stunned at how smart this pick was. (Can you see the hand of the master at work?) It has taken attention away from the leak scandal (at least for the moment), divided the dems and united the repubs. Did anyone notice how the left's attempt at framing didn't work? The left's epithets--corporate, partisan hack, far-right--didn't stick, but the rights' did--brilliant, rock-solid, mainstream. If they call him brilliant one more time I'm going to puke. Brilliant at what? Bending the law for the corporate interest?

Here's a nice inside baseball kind of article, unfortunately subscriber's only.
WSJ.com - Roberts Stands Chance To Split Democrats: "Roberts Stands Chance
To Split Democrats
Moderates Could Be Hard-Pressed to Oppose
Bush's Affable Supreme Court Nominee

By BRODY MULLINS and JOHN D. MCKINNON
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 21, 2005; Page A4

WASHINGTON -- Any political tactician's goal is to unite his side while dividing the opposition. In nominating Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court, President Bush stands a strong chance of doing just that.

The affable conservative nominee has received near-universal acclaim from Mr. Bush's fellow Republicans, who hold a 55-seat majority in the Senate. That means Democrats have no chance of blocking his confirmation without maintaining unity in their own ranks."