When the president said he wasn’t going to appoint justices who would write a decision like Dred Scott, I was puzzled. I didn’t know slavery was still a live issue. But I was reassured, I guess, that Bush wasn’t intending to put pro-slavery jurists on the court. But I was missing something. It seems it was a coded reference to repealing Roe vs Wade.
KERRY’S BIG MO: My latest Sunday Times column, now posted.
THREE CHEERS FOR GRIDLOCK: Why divided government works – especially in fiscal matters.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “I feel we’re going to be here for years and years and years. I don’t think anything is going to get better; I think it’s going to get a lot worse. It’s going to be like a Palestinian-type deal. We’re going to stop being a policing presence and then start being an occupying presence … We’re always going to be here. We’re never going to leave.” – Lance Cpl. Edward Elston, 22, of Hackettstown, N.J., in the Washington Post.
The Dish 