Word: connorism
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...short car ride before I leave, he laughs off a question about pardoning Clinton, instead telling a story. "When Laura and I were at the Cardinal O'Connor funeral, and it came time for the handshakes of peace...I see this huge hand reaching across five bodies, and it's Clinton, and he roars, 'Peace, Governor!'" Bush's Clinton accent is thick like pudding. He, like the rest of America, loves to do the Clinton voice. His cell phone rings. He fishes into the cavity below the radio and finds it. After a minute or so he says, "That...
...augments its authority by working its magic out of sight. Toiling away in their neoclassical palace, the nine Justices are perceived as being above the fray and primly cut off from everyday life. (Which is why, reportedly, former Washington Redskins fullback John Riggins once accosted Sandra Day O'Connor at a Washington dinner party and urged, "Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.") But during this case, it became clear that the Justices are not as insulated as we like to believe. Clarence Thomas' wife draws a paycheck from the conservative Heritage Foundation, where she has been vetting resumes for positions...
...Court" believes Bush has "a substantial probability of success." But it may be significant that, unlike the four-person dissent, Scalia's concurrence was signed by him alone. The Democrats are already talking about peeling away a moderate member of the conservative bloc--Kennedy or possibly O'Connor. Until a ruling comes down, those two Justices will be two of the most powerful people on the planet...
...over may be celebrating too soon. Predicting how Supreme Court Justices will vote is, even in mundane times, a perilous game. Conservatives have sometimes been disappointed by Kennedy, who has voted with liberals on issues like gay rights and school prayer. And right-to-lifers once counted on O'Connor to provide a fifth vote to overturn the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, something she has resisted...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR Faith and Courage (Atlantic). This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one's self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...