There is not much to say about the Supreme Court…yet. The wait continues on who Bush will select as his nominee. The fear though, is that the court will go from mainstream conservatism to Neo Conservative. Sandra Day O’Connor’s departure is especially depressing. She usually voted for increased rights of people and was a fair and open minded Justice.

It’s horrifying to listen to the right continue to demand a candidate who will, in their exact words “roll back rights!”

I also am not jumping at Rehnquist’s statement this week that he has no plans to retire. Well that’s all well and good but the guy is half dead! He is battling cancer and have you seen him?! He looks like a stiff wind would blow him over.

I think the sad fact still remains that Bush will be given the opportunity to nominate at least two new Justices before his term expires.

The Architect in Trouble

The RNC and the President both defend Karl Rove. Could you please tell me something I don’t know? These people better defend him. It’s going to be difficult to fire the man who brought Mr. Bush to power. The republicans just don’t learn! Power corrupts and the dishonest party seems most susceptible to it. They are, after all, the only party in the history of America to suffer the absolute greatest humiliation, having their president forced to step down because he lied and obstructed justice. This of course was the fate of Richard Nixon.

Frankly, for the Democrats having Fatty Arbuckle screw up could not be sweeter justice. Bush is too much of a bumbling idiot. It’s this “folksy” stupidity that people like. Everyone on Earth knows he is a puppet of a greater evil. Rove has been the mastermind and chief spinner of all the crap that has come out of this Administration. I’m sure it pissed Rove of when some low Ambassador was brave enough to question his Administration's (excuse me…President Bush) insistent that Iraq had WMD’s.

So the question now is will the Dems be able to increase the pressure to the point that the Republicans have no choice but to dispose of Mr. Rove on the next off ramp?

London Terror Attack

It’s been four days since the bombing in London. (I had to look this up as I forgot the date) The stock markets have been up all this week. The buzz here is already dying down. Quite frankly, even I admit to not taking much notice.

So what did this latest attack accomplish? Well we all know terrorism is still kicking and able to attack juicer targets than sun backed desert roads in Iraq. Out side of this small fact, I can’t think of much more significance!? Seriously, it’s going to take more than three 10 pound bombs to rattle the markets. So far just over 50 people have died in this attack and we all sympathize with the affected families. But, this small number of deaths is going to have only short term minimal impact on the relationship between Washington and 10 Downing Street (this will be in the form of how the subject is spun on both ends). I can just hear Bin Laden sitting in his cave saying, "if you want something done right you just have to Allah DAMN do it yourself!"

The debate about Kyoto

The G8 is over and sadly the bomb attack in London drew attention away from the real agenda. President Bush continues to refuse to even talk about Kyoto as is would “ruin America’s economy.” That’s pathetic, as curbing emissions would spark new innovation to clean up existing products thus increasing future revenue streams from people upgrading and changing over to new less or non pollution systems. Isn’t that obvious?

America used to be THE land of innovation. What happened? We now hold on to a vision of the past which saw America have unfettered access to all of earth’s natural resources. I think most people in America believe change is coming but put this off in their minds to a distant future. The change is right now though. China and India already are competing on a small, but increasing scale, for Oil.

It’s interesting to note, IF America’s leaders believe that curbing emissions would harm the economy so much now, what will happen in the future? Fossil fuels are finite. We will in the future be forced to cut emissions as there simply won’t be much fuel to burn up and spew into the environment. America is still the largest economy in the world, but that is predicted to change in the next decade or two. The change is only going to get harder when we are number two or three.

I heard James Fallows interviewed on “On Point” (www.onpointradio.org) about three weeks ago. He wrote an article in last months Atlantic Monthly (www.theatlantic.com) titled” Countdown to a Meltdown”. In this he speculates if America has what it takes to be a leader in the world and hold on to the success we have achieved so far. Honestly the answer is no unless we make some voluntary changes now.