Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Ideology or incompetance?

Melanie Phillips:

...But whatever is going on in Washington -- which appears to be having a collective nervous breakdown – that is preventing any of this even being discussed by an official committee expressly charged to discuss it, what is clear is that the mainstream media, both in the US and in Britain, is now simply incapable of applying proper journalistic criteria to the subject of the war in Iraq. Whether through venomous ideology or sheer incompetence and laziness, it is not prepared or able to do the spade-work and actually read what is in the public domain, let alone try to excavate more material. Instead it seizes upon an obviously vacuous and inconsistent paragraph, and because a lazy and slippery reading gives it a couple of soundbites with which to tell more lies about the war, proceeds to do so.