Posted 8:42 AM by Gene

Already con-SER-va-tives are shaking:

[I]n coming years, Souter’s replacement may well provide the fifth vote for:

— the imposition of a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage;

— stripping “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance and completely secularizing the public square;

— the continued abolition of the death penalty on the installment plan;

— selectively importing into the Court’s interpretation of the American Constitution the favored policies of Europe’s leftist elites;

— further judicial micromanagement of the government’s war powers; and

— the invention of a constitutional right to human cloning.

Not bloody likely. Why? I don't call Them the Nine Fingers for nothing. They can feel a hurricane. And yes, while the Fingers don't give a finger for the public, They don't want to see a mob on Their brightly polished steps. It's messy.

Besides, the Fingers can devise ways of being stupid without being ideological.