A couple of choice tidbits

Steve Clemons over at The Washington Note has two particularly interesting pieces from the last few days:

1. a look at upcoming Supreme Court openings from a strategic point of view -- not who might be appointed, but what Bush will have to consider and what response the Democrats should make to nominees (depending on what camp they come from)
   
   
2. a program that represents a rare bipartisan effort to give real people a stake in real "ownership" in this country (as opposed to the illusion of private SS accounts). I hadn't heard of this, and the sponsors are quite strange bedfellows...