Outta The Park!

Woke up this morning, made coffee, took the meds, turned on the radio and what do I hear?
Sonia Sotomayor will be the new Supreme Court justice! Fabulous.
Why am I so energized? Because there has been a carefully crafted, almost underground campaign against her and I believed President Pragmatic would defer to the skeptics and walk away from a fight. After all, the other potential nominees presented no such problems.
But no, he defied the odds makers and went with what is right. This is the best thing he's done so far, in my opinion, because it shows he's willing to fight when he believes it necessary and boy is it going to be necessary.
David Kurtz over at TPM offers this fun tidbit:

It's hard to believe it now, but there was a time not too long ago when it looked like the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice would be ... Alberto Gonzales.

Disaster averted, narrowly.

TPM is a good place to start for some quick reads on all this.