Scalia...Angora

Posted on WPost Blog, although my brother thought of it first: (Now that they bring it up, where IS Jeb Bush?)

Posted at 8:33 AM ET, 02/ 6/2008

Scalia to Determine Democratic Nominee

Still crunching numbers here, looking at absentees in American Samoa, reading the exits from Alaska, etc., and the one obvious conclusion is that the contest for the Democratic nomination may be decided by the very frightening Credentials Committee mentioned yesterday by Howard Dean. The Credentials Committee will try to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates at the convention [one of the committee chairs is Clinton insider Alexis Herman, just fyi], even though they are supposed to be punished for their jumping-the-gun impunity [surely that's not the word I want -- impertinence, maybe?]. That will, in turn, incite lawsuits galore -- really apocalyptic stuff with heavy-hitters emerging from The Palm and the Capitol Grille to let fly with legal briefs that will curl the hair on your back. And that legal case will surely go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Which means that, as in 2000 with Gore v. Bush, it's going to come down to the whim of Nino Scalia.

Don't be shocked if at the end of this whole thing, the Bush family declares martial law.

Someone find out where Jeb is.

[As a journalist you have to think ahead, anticipate the next story, get in position to pounce on news the moment it rears its nasty little head. I'm on the next plane to Florida.]