Various Americans are upset about the prospect of Alberto Gonzales taking over Sandra Day O’Connor’s vacant position on the Supreme Court.
Not because he’s pro-torture. Not even because they’re left-wing. But because they’re Republicans and he isn’t wingnutty enough for them. Fucking hell.
The most mind-boggling thing was the BBC describing O’Connor as ‘a moderate’ this morning. I was living in the States when Reagan appointed her – she wasn’t then & has never been anyone’s idea of ‘a moderate’.
Maybe they meant that, from one day to the next, you could never tell in which direction she’d be an extremist.