eleny
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Fri Apr-09-10 09:31 PM
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What makes me feel warm & toasty about this Supreme Court Justice issue... |
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A Dem president is selecting a second Justice in the first year and a half in office. There's the possibility of another 6 1/2 years to go and more Justices to get on the Court.
The SCOTUS is why I worked to help get a Dem elected. So this whole deal is like a warm blanket on a cold night given how frosty I am towards some of Obama's policies. I'm delighted that it isn't McCain making the choice(s).
And I keep holding a lit candle in my heart for Scalia to need replacing in the next few years. :D
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Fri Apr-09-10 09:33 PM
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1. The good news is that fat Tony eats like a pig, and smokes like a chimney. |
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The bad news is that a man of his age has a life expectancy of at least ten years more, even with these problems.
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Fri Apr-09-10 09:40 PM
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2. Supreme Court is an enormous part of why I worked for Obama |
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as well. I can only hope that Obama gets to replace all the liberal/moderate judges who may vacate and AT LEAST one of the conservatives. That would make me a much happier person. I can only hope the supposed poor pay encourages one of those damned conservatives to vacate, if nature does not take its course.
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:40 PM
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5. The fireworks accompanying a conservative judge leaving will be fabulous |
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:01 PM
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3. Yep, I am with you on this one. |
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This was always the big issue for me and I was constantly amazed there was so little talk about it during the election. If McCain had won there would have been the good possibility of a 90% conservatively packed SCOTUS and the end of his first term.
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:41 PM
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6. Oh you've got that right about how it would have been |
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It would have been over by now or at least with this retirement. We're so close to tipping over.
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:28 PM
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4. I frankly hope that Ginsberg and Breyer will resign in the first term. |
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And that Obama will nominate 40-somethings to replace them.
The court is the way it is because Reagan et al nominated right wing ideologues who were barely post adolescent. Objective: longevity. The result was a legal/social/economic counterrevolution. We're still in the thick of it.
The RW plays this game better than we do.
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:44 PM
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7. Well, some of their choices disapppointed them |
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I'm really excited about the process. And the antics of the right wing will help to exhaust them a little bit.
I figure that they have just so much hair to tear out and their stridency is so unhealthy for them - heh...heh...heh.
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Fri Apr-09-10 10:52 PM
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8. Only Souter was a *real * surprise. |
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And only he came post 1980.... which is pretty much when "movement" conservatives took over the GOP and also the country. Stevens came from Ford, and the GOP was a different animal in those days: conservative, but not as rigid and fanatic as it became with the Reagan takeover.
Except for Souter... all the post '80 GOP appointees have behaved as expected.
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Fri Apr-09-10 11:08 PM
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9. Oh, I see. I wasn't thinking strictly post-1980 |
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John Paul Stevens wasn't expected to be a lefty. So I included him. :hi:
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