John Roberts

Not Edith Clement. Judging from the early reaction, the right is thrilled, the left is offended and outraged. Not that you would have expected anything different, regardless of who'd been standing with the President last night.

John Hawkins has gathered a collection of reaction statements from the port side of the blogosphere. It's really pretty funny. I'd be willing to bet that most of those guys no no more about Roberts than I do. All they know is that Bush chose him, and that's all they need to know.

Update:
Nice table from Xrlq looking at some of the recent close decisions to determine what might change with a Roberts for O'Connor switch...