Dubya Comes Through

I know I haven't been doing a lot of political blogging lately, but I have to write a quick post about this:

President Bush on Tuesday picked Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Roberts, 50, is a conservative who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A former clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, his name has been floated for months as a possible Bush selection for the high court.

I'll admit that I'm surprised. I was sure Bush would pick some "moderate" judge that he was friends with at some point, but he actually went with a conservative. If you look around the blogosphere a bit, you'll see that liberals seem to hate Roberts (see the Daily "Screw Them" Kos) and conservative politicians have supported him. And he seems to believe that Roe v. Wade was a mistake, which is a huge plus.

I don't really have a lot more to say about this right now, but I wanted to give Bush the proper kudos for actually making a good choice for once. It's about time he started using that mandate.