[Supreme Court]

More Thoughts

The more I reflect on the hearings and the process of citizens and bloggers trying to influence the hearings, the more I feel like 1) there's very little we can do, and 2) even if there was something we could do--creating a Bork-like frenzy--there's no support from the national Dems to follow up on that frenzy. Moreover, even I'm not convinced Roberts is such a horrible compromise given the kinds of possibilities floating out there (see links in daily brief for more details).

Which brings us to this question: if we are in fact just positioning ourselves for nominee #2, as the national activists seem to imply, what should we be doing with Roberts? The message on the conference call yesterday seemed to be to talk a lot about privacy, which polls well with conservatives and switches emphasis from Roe. Okay, fine, but doesn't talking about privacy seem a rather limited and impotent response? I think that's why the base--and so many bloggers--are quiet on this one.

(And isn't it odd how quiet the bloggers are? There are a few folks who are really going for it, but they seem mainly to be people with actual involvement in politics, like Chris Bowers. Laymen like me don't seem to be giving much of a damn.)