WHO’S NEXT?

Now that Bush has utterly outfoxed the Dems on his first Supreme Court nomination – John Roberts is a done deal for Chief Justice – everyone inside the Beltway is handicapping his next choice.

He has confided in no one, including me. Maybe Laura knows, but she’s only given hints. Those hints and everything else points to a feminine direction. The next nominee, replacing Sandra Day O’Connor, almost has to be a woman.

It could be Priscilla Owen, it could be Edith Jones, but I am crossing my fingers for Janice Rogers Brown.

Nominating a black woman for the Supreme Court who is the antithesis of liberalism would drive the Moonbat Democrats right over the edge. They would literally lose whatever small portion of their minds they still manage to possess.

She was raised on a 158 acre farm in Alabama. Shortly after the birth of her first child, her husband died of cancer. Yet she managed to put herself through college and law school while a single mother. Her life story is heroic, as are her values and judicial philosophy.

Here is a quartet of her quotes:

“Collectivism was (and is) fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country’s founding. The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document…”

“Protection of private property was a major casualty of the Revolution of 1937…Rights were reordered and property acquired a second class status….Something new, called economic rights, began to supplant the old property rights…With the advent of ‘economic rights,’ the original meaning of rights was effectively destroyed. These new ‘rights’ imposed obligations, not limits, on the state. It thus became government’s job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and distribute it.”

“Once again a majority of this court has proved that ‘if enough people get together and act in concert, they can take everything and not pay for it.’ But theft is theft. Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery…The right to express one’s individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion.”

“We are heirs to a mind-numbing bureaucracy; subject to a level of legalization that cannot avoid being arbitrary, capricious, and discriminatory. What other outcome is possible in a society in which no adult can wake up, go about their business, and return to their homes without breaking several laws?”

Janice Rogers Brown is brilliantly articulate, warm, friendly, funny, and almost impossible to dislike in person. If Bush wants to go for the gold, he can’t do better. Will he? I don’t know – but I do know Laura is whispering her name in his ear.