Shakespeare's Sister has an excellent pair of posts running down the records potential candidates for the Supreme Court. You should read them (1, 2). I'd love to hear Jeralyn's take on these folks as well.

While on the subject, you should read Mark Schmitt's post on the "Constitution-in-exile" crowd, and what their goals are. This graf particularly jumped out at me:

If you had sat me down six months ago and told me the Democrats were going to not only outmaneuver, but out-organize the Republicans on Social Security, I would have called you a CIA plant. If you did it today, I'd call you the Washington Post:

Administration and congressional officials said many Republican members remain afraid of taking on Social Security, and many fewer than the party had hoped are holding Social Security events this week.

Congressman Roy Blunt gets offended by a Michael Crowley article. Congressman Roy Blunt writes in to The New Republic. Michael Crowley is given a chance to respond. Michael Crowley eviscerates Roy Blunt. You laugh at the hapless congressman before feeling bad that this guy is helping to run the country.

C'mon -- you know you want to read the whole thing.

Finally put up a long-overdue permalink to the excellent Shakespeare's Sister. Helpful readers are encouraged to head over to her site and apologize for my tardiness.

Also, you guys should read Tomasky's piece on progressivism's estrangement from philosophy. One thing I think he omits is that, in addition to talking strategy, we talk a lot of policy, and we generally mistake the latter for philosophy. I think that has something to do with empiricism becoming a stealth philosophy for liberals, but that's a side issue.