Round 2

The strategy is working.

First time out, name someone whose opinions and whose votes you are certain of, but not someone likely to stirs things up too much. Someone charming but not too much on the record. Then wait. Be patient. You can afford to because you know it won’t take too long before you can move into the second phase.

It didn’t.

Now that Rehnquist is dead the President gets to do it a second time. And the person he names is going to be the Big Payoff, the Reason We Voted For The Guy In The Second Place. Our Conservative brethren are already falling to their knees in gratitude.