"scalito" it is

well, bushy made his new supreme court pick. not surprisingly, he went with a right wing reactionary with a staunch record of opposing abortion rights and the separation of church and state. while judge alito has yet to be confirmed as a supreme court justice, he has been confirmed as an asshole.

in fairness, i get the impression this guy is less of a dick than scalia and less of a lunatic than thomas. but he is definitely right of both kennedy and roberts. look for these clowns to set back social progress oh, say 50 years or so. i weap for the future

ps- 4KS would like to formally go on record as opposing this nominee.


pss- as a late addendum, i'd like to refer everyone to today's slate, which observes that alito is probably more consistently conservative than scalia (in the author's words, at least scalia has a "libertarian streak"), and is notably extreme in his opposition to abortion rights.