Monday, May 23, 2005

Deal on nuclear option: What should I think, O media?

So it seems that 14 Senators made a deal that will avert the nuclear option. In my line of work (whose exact description I will leave vague because, even though only 20 people read my blog and I know who you are, I am pretending to be anonymous) this was the biggest news since sliced bread. However, I found nonetheless that I was not sure what I thought about it. I mean, I had a few thoughts, namely:
  • Janice Rogers Brown: thinks New Deal was socialist revolution; will be Justice on D.C. Circuit = bad.
  • Possible filibuters of rabid psychos in future = good.
  • Internal thoughts in style of Terminator or Bridget Jones = disturbing.

Other than that, my reaction was that I need to read more stuff online to see what other people think about it. Does this mean I am going dumb in my old age, or does it just show the whole postmodern, nothing-has-meaning-until-we-collectively-assign-it-meaning chestnut was right all along?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one who thinks the whole thing's gonna happen again in September once the Chief resigns? On that note, though, apparently the Chief told his clerks for next term to move to town. Maybe he's not going anywhere yet.

But, please, T&A -- your internal thoughts keep me going during the dreariness that is my workaday life. Keep them coming.

TA said...

Thanks for supporting my internal thoughts, Toolstein!

Re: the clerks: I think that Rehnquist will keep some of his clerks even if he retires, and also A3G hypothesized that O'Connor only hired three clerks for next year so that she could absorb one of Rehnquist's. So his hiring processes are not necessarily a good way to predict what he will do.

Anonymous said...

Color me ignorant, but what will Rehnquist do with these Supreme Court clerks once he has retired?