>>I don't think Carter was seen as incompetent as this. Especially in light of the words people with lots of experience use to describe this administration. Such as O'Conner saying we need to fight what could be the beginnings of a dictorship.
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>This is the second time you've brought up this bit about O'Conner. From http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C%2C1729350%2C00.html, here are a couple of relavent points:

If people ignore you, scream louder and they might still ignore you. :)


>No transcript or recording of the speech has been made available, so we have only {NPR's Nina} Totenberg's notes to go on.

>"I, said O'Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O'Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."

>Nowhere - NOWHERE - has O'Conner linked this statement to the current administration.

What do you mean? It has the word "DICTATOR" in it.