YGLESIAS AWARD NOMINEE

“Forget that the nation and the party would both have been better served by the temperamentally suited and professionally qualified John Roberts’ winning Senate confirmation with 90-plus votes.
The nation would have been better served because such a margin would have represented an un-petty act in a city descended into hateful pettiness.
And the Democrats, because by acknowledging Roberts’ obvious assets — intellectual firepower, genuine respect from, and friendship with, colleagues who are active Democrats, a reputation for open-mindedness and not being a captive of ideology — they could have then believably used the “Roberts standard” to measure President Bush’s future court nominees.” – Mark Shields, taking his own side to task for stupidity and cravenness toward special interest groups. I couldn’t agree more. if John Roberts is not good enough as a Republican nominee to the court, who on earth is? I might add that Hillary Clinton’s no-vote is to my mind a clear reminder not to trust her alleged move to the center. I don’t believe her.