What litmus test?
We spent some time this morning on one of the perception games being played over the replacement of retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Here’s another. As we all wait for George W. Bush to announce his pick for O’Connor’s replacement, we’re supposed to believe that the president is methodically making his way through a stack of resumes and legal decisions from a long short list of potential nominees with no interest whatsoever in the political views of any of them. That’s what we’re supposed to believe because that’s what the president and his people are telling us. At a press availability in Denmark Tuesday, Bush said he is busy “reading about the different backgrounds and different opinions and different attitudes of the perspective [sic] nominees” and is looking forward to “the review process, the interview process, as well.” Asked whether he’d use a “litmus test” on abortion or gay marriage in picking O’Connor’s replacement, Bush said: “As I said during both of my c
