Eyes on the Prize - Rove, Novak, et. al

President Bush will most likely get his very conservative and partisan nominee on the Supreme Court this year. (Roberts helped halt the vote counting in Florida for Bush in 2000.)

This nominee is ready to do Bush's bidding and put the lie to the President's "compassionate" conservatism. Bush is a hard right ideologue, whose fealty to religious conservatives is only outdone by his compassion for big business.

It may take a few years, even up to three and a half, but I'm optimistic the general public will finally see Bush as a divider, not a uniter. They'll see his incompetence with the economy and his wrecklessness with our national defense. They'll see through the spin to the truth.

Here's what he said after his first election (well, you know) about bringing responsibility and ethics back to Washington, DC:

"We must remember the high standards that come with high office. This begins with careful adherence to the rules. I expect every member of this administration to stay well within the boundaries that define legal and ethical conduct. This means avoiding even the appearance of problems. This means checking and, if need be, doublechecking that the rules have been obeyed. This means never compromising those rules."

He didn't exclude Karl Rove from that, or the press.

So, if the public is shocked into consciousness, or the press gets a backbone, or the Democratic pary starts fighting for what's right as hard as their adversaries fight, that will spell trouble for [R]'s for years to come. It will also put the onus back on Democrats to instill fiscal reponsibility, a thoughtful and tough national defense, and civil rights for all Americans back on a track that our founding fathers set all those years ago.

Yeah, I'm an optimist.