Rehnquist

So Rehnquist is dead.

Just what Bush needs. Something political that he can use as a distraction from his administration's incompetence in the south.

I call for a sixty day moratorium on even talking about the concept of thinking about who might be capable of being nominated to fill that seat. Let's get through the important crisis before we distract ourselves with political chest-thumping.

Here's what will happen, though, it'll be delayed -- but only until the "immediate" issues of NOLA are dealt with and people start poking into the various points of blame for the situation (some of which is Bush and his administration, some of which is NOLA's own fault). But as soon as that news starts to turn its eye towards DC for finger-pointing, then "Filling Rehnquist's seat" will take center-stage, drowning out the NOLA issues, and anyone who tries to talk about NOLA first will be accused of "getting caught up in the past, we need to move on, etc., etc."

Bets? Any takers? <injoke>Come on, D, I know you've got five bucks. :-)</injoke>