Conservative President Nominates Conservative Judge

Holy Crap! The most ideological administration in history has nominated a conservative for the Supreme Court. That's so unexpected. That is so weird. The president who believed a defeat in the popular vote the first time around gave him a mandate to do whatever he pleased and a narrow margin of victory the second time earned him political capital to gut Social Security has selected a judge so conservative the Washington Monument makes him uncomfortable... Hmm... no how about- He's so conservative he covers his kids' eyes whenever a train goes into a tunnel. No... how about- He's so conservative he spearheaded an effort to have all the squirrels removed from Virginia because he did not approve of their putting nuts in their mouths. Yes, I think that's the one.
The fact is, as conservative power brokers put it, elections have outcomes. That may simply be a euphemism for "to the victor go the spoils" but it's true enough. This is not only to say the friends of this administration have profited well, but that they get to be the decision makers too. How is that a surprise?
What is surprising is that is front page news. Both the LA and NY times saw fit to make this above the fold front page banner news. Maybe it's not surprising since a good deal of the stories that deserve attention right now highlight the laziness and culpability of contemporary investigatory journalism. Without a mainstream press willing to swallow any load of garbage in the name of access perhaps Iraq would have been a tougher sell to the American public and Valerie Plame would still be a covert operative. Without a profit driven media perhaps we would know and do more about AIDS and genocide in Africa, the regionally destabilizing aspects of CAFTA, and literally who knows what else.
The administration is at least being honest to itself by acting in accordance to their ideology and by staying on message (avoiding questions not about Roberts) during press conferences. Maybe the media are too. Maybe I am mistaken in thinking it's all anything more than theatrics. Maybe, whatever the name, it's all just Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood but with more wrinkles and uglier talking heads. If that's the case, let me be among those to say, "I am sorry."