That said, it could be enjoyable to sit back & watch the big business right wingers duke it out with the religious nuts. This is a fight the Republicans have been postponing for at least a decade, but it seems likely the fight over the highly symbolic Supreme Court might bring it out into the open. My guess is that Bush will toss some red meat to the religious right on this one.

As denizens of TPM Cafe know, we Democrats often get exercised about the divisions within our ranks, taking sides & then advising unity. I wonder if the Republicans, though, can continue to hold together what really ought to be an unstable coalition of interest groups, especially given the religious right's absolutist view of politics.