GETTING WARMER

Democrats are beginning to turn up the heat on John Roberts again because he sat on a three judge panel that ruled on a Guantanamo Bay case and the Cheney Energy Task Force thing. Wow. That's all they've got against this guy?

So Roberts should have at least recused himself from both of the above cases? Okay. That's sounds fair enough to me. I'm a reasonable Republican. If a judge knows that he or she is being considered for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, don't even allow the appearance of impropriety to creep in. Why leave the door open for the accusation? Fine.

If the Democrats are going to take issue with Roberts on this point, it's more than fair for me to raise the same issue about current Justices Breyer and Ginsberg, both of whom continued to hear dozens of government-related cases AFTER they were nominated to the SCOTUS by Clinton.

Consistency. All I want is some consistency here.