Turpis Geminus Vexillum

Articles like this make me want to punch a wall... or just stop reading the news and move to a cabin in Montana.

Republicans face a tough political dilemma if they oppose President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic and only its third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

It makes me desperate for the free time needed to search and search and search for articles with ledes like:

"Democrats face a tough political dilemma if they oppose President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Sandra Day O'Conner as the nation's first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court."

or

"Democrats face a tough political dilemma if they oppose President George W. Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzalez as the nation's first Hispanic to serve as Attorney General."

or

"Democrats face a tough political dilemma if they oppose President George W. Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice as the nation's first African American woman to serve as Secretary of State."

Just a hunch. These articles don't exist... at least not many.

So instead, I'll just read articles like this, buy some maps of Montana and hope the confirmation process works.