As to getting the same courtesy, until we stop molleycoddlin and placating the incessantly unappeasable twits, there will never a balance be.

Right now, the court’s new “swing vote” justice is Anthony Kennedy, whereas Sandra Day O Connor was before her retirement. He’s liberal, but on rare occasion will side with the conservative side of the court.

I would have said Kennedy’s a pragmatist, not a liberal. I find it refreshing that he actually approaches things with an open mind and makes his decisions on the facts, not the ideology. I’d like to see more like him.

Whatevs . . .

It used to be, until the Bork nomination, that a President was granted his choice of appointments unless there was something seriously wrong with them ethically (Abe Fortas, for example.) Now the Democrats have abandoned that comity to play partisan politics with nominations. Just look at the Hell Clarence Thomas was put through.

The Republicans have stuck to the principle of comity: Justice Ginsburg, perhaps the most liberal justice, sailed through 95-0, I think. Compare that with how Alito and Roberts were treated, both of whom are superb legal scholars.

Should a President McCain nominate Appellate Judge Janice Rogers Brown (Please, Lord! ), does anyone really think she’ll get the same courtesy show Ginsburg?

I didn’t think so.