Posted on 11/10/2008 7:09:07 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Bolshevik 1 and Bolshevik 2. God help us.
As with every adminsitration, there will be two factions in the Obama White House on the judicial appointment issue. One will be confrontationalists, who want to appoint an openly raidcal nominee with Democrat votes alone. On the other, there will be those with a more accomidationalist mode, wanting to appoint a judge who could prolong the Presidential honeymoon and win a mandate vote without stirring up a lot of controversy.
Replacing Ginsberg and Stevens with two other lefties won’t change anything. Just a missed opportunity to cement a conservative court for the next two decades or more.
This was not one of the particularly scary aspects of an Obama presidency. The conservative justices that are getting on in years (such as Scalia) will die on the bench before they let Obama name replacements. If Stevens and Ginsburg are replaced, it’s not like the court can get any farther left. They’ll be replaced with clones.
It’s what happens after those two justices retire (or, God forbid, a second term) that scares me.
If they replace two other Bolsheviks (Stevens and Ginsburg) the court power balance will remain the same.
Anyone is better than Ginsburg. Obamanation can’t go wrong here.
How about a transsexual Aztec?
....That is if it is not two of the good ones. It may be Stevens and Ginsburg are more likely, but our luck is not that good recently.
But let’s see if Republicans have enough Senate votes to filibuster judges.
Is that gang of 14 rule still in effect, that filibusters can only be done in extraordinary circumstances?
Of course Democrats agreed to that when the split was 55 Republican 45 Democrat. Is it 58 Democrats now, including Lieberman and Bernie Sanders? And did Al Franken steal that Minnesota election yet?
Unless one of the right leaning judges quits/dies...or becomes incapacitated...nothing is going to change.
Probably 3 will step down to allow a Lib lifetime replacement. Perhaps 1 more due to health/age.
He’ll replace libs with libs.
With all the agitation about homosexual marriage, I am waiting for the homosexual community to weigh in. Maybe it’s about time a gay justice was on the court, according to their thinking?
Republicans play by the rules and vote to confirm if a nominee is qualified.
Democrats whine if the nominee does not pass their ideological litmus tests.
A cross dressing left-handed lesbian Hispanic/Pacific Islander/Hmong paraplegic Communist of color would be the best of all.
If Obama picks a young Justice, there is still the wild possibility that Scalia will convert em.
Great this makes me feel...no better at all...
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