HE WHO IS WITHOUT CONFLICT OF INTEREST, CAST THE FIRST STONE

Over at the Panda, Jesse notes that Justice Scalia is doing us all a favor by recusing himself in the Newdow case, more than most realize:

If he's incapable of deciding a First Amendment case because of his own personal beliefs (which is presumably what his recusal is based on, since he has no other substantive connection to the case), doesn't this lend a whole boatload of credence to Democratic opposition to Bush's other right-wing judges?

George Bush has already declared that his model justice is Scalia in previous comments . . . If this is so, then we've essentially reached the point that many critics of Bush's judicial nominees had previously warned - ideologues unable to subsume their ideology to the far more important mantle of the fair interpretation of the law.

Thanks for the help, Tony. You aren't such a bad guy after all...

Good point! Do I expect proponents of Bush's racist/extremist nominees to change their tune any? Oh, now that would be naive of me.