Hoo boy. US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is retiring. BushCo and their wingnut cheering section must surely have a mess on their hands from their desks being flipped end over end across the room when they popped massive boners on hearing the news. Now they can finally — finally! — stop all that damned judicial activism — by installing an activist judge of their own particular flavor. The Beltway must surely be awash with right-wing love juice today.

Next up for W: Try like hell to find a nominee even less suited for the bench than the last one his daddy dug up, Justice Clarence Thomas. I bet he’ll do it, too. I bet he’ll find someone that makes Thomas look like a legal Einstein.