Consensus? No!!!!!!!!!!!

This disturbing news about the Supreme Court popped up today:

Key GOP and Democratic members of the Senate met this morning with President Bush for a first discussion of the upcoming nomination of a new Supreme Court justice, with Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declaring afterward that he was confident that a "consensus" candidate satisfactory to both parties would emerge from the process.

Several in the meeting said as well that they had urged Bush to appoint a justice who is not sitting on any U.S. court of appeals in the interest of getting someone with practical experience.

Reid, the minority leader, said that while Bush "didn't give us any names, there were names mentioned in the meeting."

Reid, reflecting the comments of others in attendance as well, said he thought there has been "enough contention on judges."

Someone with practical experience, eh? How about a solid conservative son of the South with extensive experience heading the district attorney's office in NYC?

There's no other word for it: I'm......(wait for it, wait for it) OUTRAGED!

"Consensus" of course means delaying the all-out legal/political/ideological war we've been promised! Talk about your coifus interruptus! All our dancing around the severed head of Robert Bork on a pole gone to naught! All our secret conferences on the "constitution in exile," all our toasts commemorating the retirement of Justice Brennan, all our Federalist Society meetings spent learning the Illuminati handshakes----nothing!

The horror.....the horror.....

UPDATE: I was wondering how long it was going to take for George Mitchell to insert his ugly mug and razor sharp elbows into this fiesta.

Yet another reason to boycott Disney.