he said it

If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined.

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, who declined to recuse himself from a case involving his friend and hunting companion, Vice President Dick Cheney. This is but one pointed sentence in a 21 page memo defending his right to free association and excoriating the press for questioning his probity in the decision over the VP’s right to keep his secrets.

I’m surprised it has gotten this far. But then this is the same court whose involvement in the 2000 presidential election generated so much discussion.

The framers and their countrymen conceived the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and fought a war against one of the world’s most powerful empires for this?