Posted on 04/09/2010 11:33:19 AM PDT by Texas Peartree
When you play poker, the key to winning is not found in your cards, it is found in the other people around the table. The saying used to be that if you look around the poker table and cannot identify the sucker, then it is probably you. When President Obama plays poker, or negotiates a treaty, he can never find the sucker at the table because it is always him. What gambler would remove the bluff of using nuclear weapons against a biological/chemical weapon attack?
When negotiating the passage of Obamacare, some Democrats held out for state exemptions from Medicare costs increases. Others held out for releasing water to agricultural lands in their state. One got his brother put on the federal bench. Then there is Bart Stupak, a formerly Pro-Life Democrat who sold out his one core issue for an empty promise from the President.
Or did he? Perhaps Stupak is a better negotiator than we suspected. On the same day that Stupak announces that he will not run for re-election to the House, liberal stalwart Justice John Paul Steven announces that he is retiring from the Supreme Court.
Is this a coincidence? Stupak is a hack, but so was Justice Sotomayor before CNN/MSNBC/NewYorkTimes/WashingtonPost/NPR began their glowing reviews. Maybe Stupak was a better negotiator than we suspected.
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No commies for me today, thanks.
No way is Obama nominating a pro-lifer to the SCOTUS. No way.
A liberal with some supposed pro-life leanings. Will that make it easier to get approved? Will conservatives back off thinking he’s better than a full blown abortion rights nominee?
Pro lifer, he could care less if it would further his career, what a joke Stupak is.
Stupak is a white guy from the midwest. What progressive demographic does that satisfy? So unless he’s ready to come out of the closet real soon, I don’t think he’ll be on the Supreme Court anytime soon. But maybe he can host the Biggest Loser: Political Edition
Stupak’s retiring has just cost the Democrats another house seat in November. No way in hell they’re going to reward him with any kind of appointment.
Since he has proven to be a pro abortion fascist, he fits the Obama template.
Let’s get Pelosi and Reid to approve a “to be named” judicial nomination now. We will know who’s been selected after the vote has been taken the same way we learned about what was in the healthcare bill retroactively.
He is most qualified to serve, since he has experience defiling the Constitution as a Congressman.(sarc)
If Obama promised to RAM him into the SCOTUS, Stupak might have thought he could do more good for prolife there than one vote on one bill.
Mr. Stupak is a mighty weak man.
He’s quitting when the going gets tough.
And he was fooled by President Obama.
Neither of these moments qualifies him for anything - except the animal control officer in his hometown.
I pity him.
There is no “in yer face” act beyond these...people?!!!!!!!!!!
Trading one commie for another. This one gets a yawn from me.
JANET INCOMPETANO WILL BE NEXT USSC NOMINEE
He’s going to be named diplomat to Qatar.
Valerie Plame for USSC...
NO way...NO how...NOT gonna happen...
As annoyed as I am at him, he would be a fabulous pick for the supreme court from THIS president. It won’t happen, of course.
Granholm being mentioned.
Put her on the Court, save Michigan.
Stupak made a deal with the devil, and it bit him in the arse. Imagine that!
40 pieces of silver is a seat on the COURT? hmmmmmm
No one would have anything to do with the democrats unless they were communist, islamist or just plain stupid.
If he does get the nomination, we’ll know what the Chicago equivalent of 72 virgins is.
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