another supreme court nominee?

[medeak]

oh pleeeese gawd no..

from Wonkette:

Breaking News: Justice Stevens “Can’t Put Up With This Shit Anymore”!
Rumor has it that Justice John Paul Stevens, the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, may call it quits when the current court term ends in June. Sources say he’s fed up with being in a powerless liberal minority — and recently expressed that frustration in some pretty colorful language for a Supreme Court justice: “I can’t put up with this shit anymore!”

Justice Stevens: Mad as hell, and not going to take this anymore!

Because retirement rumors about Justice Stevens return each spring with the birds and the flowers, we look upon them with suspicion. And there are reasons to view the rumors skeptically once again. First, at a recent clerk dinner, Justice Stevens said he had no plans to retire. Second, Justice Stevens has hired law clerks for the next term, which suggests that he plans to remain on the Court at least through June 2007 (or at least wants people to think that he will).

This time around, however, the JPS resignation rumor is supported by more detailed and credible information. First, there’s the specificity of the overheard language: “I can’t put up with this shit anymore!” Second, recent events — namely, the replacement of Justice O’Connor by Justice Alito — make Justice Stevens’s frustrated outburst more understandable.

Third, Justice Stevens may also have personal reasons for stepping down. Although he’s in fine health himself, despite turning 86 this coming April, rumor has it that his wife Maryann Simon could be in better health. Justice Stevens may wish to spend more time with her, just as Justice O’Connor left the Court to spend more time with her ailing husband, John Jay O’Connor.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Three more years Stevens, three more years, please!

[Ian David]

2. Can I call Sen. Nelson's office and use the F-word again now? n/t

[adriennui]

7. say this isn't so....please

the thought of who chimpy mcsmirk and slump has in store for us is the stuff of nightmares.

[mmonk]

3. He HAS to stay.

Chances of replacing him with a sane nominee are zero. Republican extremists and their DLC allies will screw us. He just has to stay awhile longer.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Well, I guess the rapture is finally upon us...

[RufusEarl]

5. It's time for a little pray, and i'm not a praying kind of guy!

But i'll be on my knees, praying this is just rumor.

[WI_DEM]

6. Who can blame him? he's 85 and probably thought the dems

would fight harder, and there is no gurantee that a democrat will be elected president in '08

[medeak]

8. they shoot horses don't they?

can't take much more...

[AndyTiedye]

9. NOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

If ** gets another seat on the Court, that gives the Fundies an absolute majority!
Hello theocracy!

[Igel]

10. Aw, FCOL

(my new acronym for "for crying out loud", which nearly rhymes with 'fecal')

There's not enough crap to get upset and irritated over. Now we have to scour the earth for irritants. Even Wonkette adds that the "I can't take this shit any more" might be used in a lot of contexts.

I've said it before getting up from a particularly bad dinner in a dormitory cafeteria. I said it when I was nearly suicidal and decided to simultaneously abandon my church, my job, my residence, and the city I lived in.

This is like the 21 indictments RawStory was all but guaranteeing would hit the fan in December against Libby, Rove, *, Cheney, and 98% of the repubs in the country. It riles people up, but it's not a fact. Few facts are worth getting riled up over; no rumor is worth getting riled up over, unless it involves you, your boss, several goats, and lime jello. And then it's only worth getting riled up if there's videotape, and it doesn't include your boss's face.

[KittyWampus]

11. Wonkette is a rumor monger

Trying to drum up hits .

[Xenotime]

12. This would be the end of the country if they did this.