Lucky Duckies

didn't have to face the combined strategic genius or military experience of "other priorities" Dick Cheney or the moral acuity of Justice``I never hunted in the same blind with the vice president,'' Antoni Scalia, nor did they pay taxes.

Justice Scalia refused to taint the dignitiy of the Supreme court by recusing himself from the case in which his hunting buddy Cheney is a litigant, since ``If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined...''. With his hawk like moral vision, he also recognised that the honor of the court would have been damaged if he had promised to fork over those of the "so cheap" costs of the hunting trip, which he has not paid already. Sure, the amount of money is trivial compared to the honor and dignity of a Supreme Court Justice, but it's not the money, it's the principle.

Seriously folks, why is he making such a big deal about this ? What happens if the court breaks not 5-4 for Cheney but 4-4 ? I would have thought that the plaintiff gets nothing if the court is evenly split.