Maybe, but…

Gallup, via Political Wire…

Sixty-one percent of Americans approve and 28% disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing.

Maybe, but it's hard to believe that 61% of Americans have any idea what the Supreme Court is doing, let alone how they're doing it.

Or 28%, for that matter.

Just sayin'.

From the "Cunning Plan" file.

Darryl...

So here’s the plan. Obama nominates the person he really believes would make the best Supreme Court Justice. About the time the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the nomination, there is a leak from the White House that Obama’s second choice is Bill Clinton.

Pesto! A Republican vote appears.

Heh™.

Huh?

The brouhaha over the AP's bungled reporting of Obama's position on supporting religious charities reminded me of something I was puzzling over before the Clark affair disracted me. Reporting on the Supreme's DC gun decision, the AP's Liz Sidoti led with this...

John McCain welcomed a Supreme Court decision invalidating a District of Columbia handgun ban. Barack Obama sought to straddle the subject by saying he favors an individual's right to bear firearms as well as a government's right to regulate them.

Let's see, the Supreme Court ruled that there is an individual right to bear arms, but that the government has a right to regulate the exercise of that right. Obama, on the other hand, believes that there is an individual right to bear arms, but that the government has a right to regulate the exercise of that right.

"Straddle," Liz? I think the word you were looking for was "agreed."

Fear card?

Hell, he's playing a full house. From target="parent" the DNC blog…

McCain fundraising email today: "I'm sure I don't have to remind you how important even one vote on the Supreme Court can be. Issues concerning states' rights, abortion, affirmative action, the Second Amendment and religious freedom have all been decided by a very slim 5-4 margin."

God, guns and gays. Acid, amnesty and abortion. Yada, yada, yada.

Turns out the "maverick" from Arizona's pretty much the McSame as all of 'em, from Nixon on down.

Yep.

And again I wonder, why not Washington?

Heh™

"Libertarians have a lot more rules than the other parties."

Chief Justice Roberts, during oral argument for WA State Grange v. Washington State.

It's the partisan primary case. PDF of the whole sordid affair here. Doesn't sound like we'll be going top two.

Hat tip to Chantel Tales.