[Non-Sequitur]

I am sure SoSo will fall in line with her masters.

I have no doubt that Sotomayor will. But then so would have Souter. The battle needs to be fought and won before one of the more rational justices needs to be replaced. So long as Obama is replacing the Ginsburgs and the Souters and the Sevens' of the court then it liberal for liberal. If he has a chance to replace an Alito or a Scalia or a Thomas then we're sunk.

[GeronL]

Maybe they will try to expand the court soon. You never know.

[Still Thinking]

I have no doubt that Sotomayor will. But then so would have Souter. The battle needs to be fought and won before one of the more rational justices needs to be replaced. So long as Obama is replacing the Ginsburgs and the Souters and the Sevens' of the court then it liberal for liberal. If he has a chance to replace an Alito or a Scalia or a Thomas then we're sunk.

True for today, this week. But the new unConstitutional judges are younger. Those seats will be safe leftist votes for decades. We'll be trapped in the same hell we live in now forever. We need at least one more vote swung reliably our way, so we can stop worrying so much about what Kennedy thinks, and eventually we'll need our guys replaced with younger ones so we don't lose THOSE votes.