John Roberts for the Supremes

We've been cruising right-wing sites to see if there's any expressed discomfort with El Presidente's choice for the Supreme Court, since Roberts is about as non-confrontational and "modernist" a jurist as Bush could have picked. So far the doubts are muted. Except for Ann Coulter. Drudge has posted what he says she's saying.

Same hedging on the left, mainly. We'd all expected -- at least early on -- an in-your-liberal-face throwing down of the anti-abortion gauntlet. But Roberts ain't that.

What he IS ... remains to be seen. Apparently, he's well known in lawyer circles (and who said lawyers were our only native criminal class?) with a paper trail of advocacy for clients, which is not at all the same thing as a paper trail of judicial opinions. He's kind of a pod-person, one of those alien-grown vegetables from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," with no discernible features of his own. You just dread a little bit going to sleep in his presence.

One liberal blogger -- we forget who -- was saying this a.m. that the Senate should get this over with so we can all go back to topic A: the criminality in the White House arising from the decision to fake the evidence for going to war in Iraq.