“Er, is this troika taking a preemptive whack at a possible Supreme Court nominee?”

Nope, Judge Posner should have had Souter’s seat but GHWB didn’t want to face another Borking. Judge Posner is now a bit long in the tooth for an appointment to the Supreme Court. I don’t know about Keller but Moyers and Alterman were mudflingers at both Bork and Thomas.

Watch what the NYT does wrt Roberts. Roberts learned a lot watching Bork go through the fire and part of the reason the mudflingers can’t find anything on him is because of what he learned. That’s not going to keep the NYT from painting him as “extreme” with absolutely no supporting evidence.

Every once in a while I see a nature program featuring what is called a “living fossil”. Discovery Channel or National Geographic should put a camera crew on these guys. A program on Komodo Dragons would probaly achieve a higher rating but I bet they woud do better than ‘The Dodo – Nature’s Dumbest Bird’.