Conservative President with Conservative Support Nominates Conservative for Supreme Court

People for the American Way President Ralph G. Neas expressed outrage over today's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. "To think that the president of the United States would nominate a judge with a clear-cut, well-established conservative judicial philosophy, contrary to the wishes of millions of Americans who are diametrically opposed [to his judicial philosophy] is just mind-boggling," Neas stated. Neas further stated that "We are going to Bork him like he's never been Borked before."

Also, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada) expressed concern that this could cause a fundamental shift in future Supreme Court rulings, stating that "replacing a swing voter like Justice O'Connor with such an obvious conservative shows and alarming disregard for precedent."

In a related story, comic strip character Lucy Van Pelt publicly criticized the departing O'Connor today, saying that "the trouble with O'Connor" is that she is "always changing rainbows."