David "Babbling" Brooks today suggests, in relation to selecting a Supreme Court Justice:
Mr. President, don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Ideas drive history, so you want to pick the person with the biggest brain.I'm not sure which of the current set Mr. Brooks believes to have small brains. But I'm not sure that, within the context of his thesis, "bigger is better". If the selection is about driving history, as Mr. Bush can certainly attest, history is often more driven by bad ideas than by good ones.
Maybe this was Brooks's way of hinting that the new Justice should be a man.
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