Deb Messling wrote: > I bet the first headline we'll see after the new Senate is sworn in will be > "Rehnquist retires." With a Republican Senate, Bush will be able to > appoint right-wingers to all the courts. The effect of THAT tragedy will > last for decades. It will last the rest of my life. We can kiss Roe v Wade > goodbye. Maybe we can even kiss Miranda goodbye. Maybe even Brown v Board.
That us exactly right. O'Conner will retire too. Bush raised something like $193 million in soft money and it bought some narrow victories, and now this nation will lurch to the far right. The environment as well will take a huge hit. To echo Debra, everyone who says there is no difference between the parties is speaking loosely on the margins. There are real reasons there are two parties and now there is nothing to brake the stampede of what is to come. Vince
