Categorical Aperitif

One of the most depressing things about the Bush II years for me has been the lesson they have provided in just how many of America's elite pundits and politicians are rank apologists for authoritarianism. Witness this dishonor roll from The Daily Show, which kicks off with, once again, the ever-edifying Steve Doocy:

They're nattering about the Boumediene decision, about which see Marjorie Cohn and Glenn Greenwald for a more sane and balanced analysis. I only wish Cohn's last paragraph didn't feel like a clammy hand reaching out from under the bed and grabbing your ankle in the middle of the night:

It is very likely the next president will make at least one nomination, and probably two, to the Supreme Court. Boumediene is the poster child for how delicately the Court is now balanced, and the disastrous consequences to the doctrine of separation-of-powers that await us if a President McCain makes good on his promise to appoint judges in the mold of Roberts and Alito.

// posted by nash @ 6:40 PM