Sandra Day O'Connor announces retirement

The Supreme Court justice notable for her leaving a dinner party in disgust upon hearing initial reports that Al Gore might have won the presidency has announced her retirement from the bench. O'Connor had long been rumored to want to retire, but did not want a Democratic president to appoint her successor.

Nothing is better for thee than me.

I don't need to explain to you what a critical battle this sets up. Add to the mix the fact that Chief Justice Renquist is on his last legs and, well, we're facing the prospect of this illegitimate and radical administration getting to appoint not one, but two members to the Supreme Court.

To those of us that only pray for damage control until Bush is gone, this is serious, as it will have consequences that will far outlive the dark stain on our nation's history otherwise known as the Bush presidency. The Supreme Court already leans right by 5-4, so we're confronted with the possibility that it would become a 7-2 conservative court. I don't think that needs further explaination as to what effect that would have on this country.

More than any other single event, that could mean our country could be literally transformed into something it's never been before, and move even further into a corporatocracy with the force of law behind it. It would truly be a radical bench.