Souter to Retire

Dungheap said:
My early guess is Cass Sunstein. Whoever it is better be the liberal equivalent of Scalia. I don't want a goddamned "moderate."
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I know. It's so amazing, I have been hearing Republicans yapping about how Obama better not appoint a liberal.

WTF?

Wasn't it just yesterday when elections had consequences? And Democrats should try winning some?

Well they did! I think Republicans better get out the salt and pepper, because it's time to Eat The Consequences. They are so funny, they love being in control and shoving right wing fanatics down the country's throat, but when someone else gets in control they freak out. That's because they're petrified that the someone else is going to act the way they did when they were in control! They are real head-cases alright.

But I love watching this. I hardly have time to post at all, but I do keep up with the news no matter how busy I get. Tiana and I even email each other back and forth with news stories about Republicans freaking out, and laughing about it. As much as I have some serious disagreements with certain things in this administration, I have to say the byproduct of watching the Republicans get their comeuppance has been just a thing of joy.
 
Darla said:
I know. It's so amazing, I have been hearing Republicans yapping about how Obama better not appoint a liberal.

WTF?

Wasn't it just yesterday when elections had consequences? And Democrats should try winning some?

Well they did! I think Republicans better get out the salt and pepper, because it's time to Eat The Consequences. They are so funny, they love being in control and shoving right wing fanatics down the country's throat, but when someone else gets in control they freak out. That's because they're petrified that the someone else is going to act the way they did when they were in control! They are real head-cases alright.

But I love watching this. I hardly have time to post at all, but I do keep up with the news no matter how busy I get. Tiana and I even email each other back and forth with news stories about Republicans freaking out, and laughing about it. As much as I have some serious disagreements with certain things in this administration, I have to say the byproduct of watching the Republicans get their comeuppance has been just a thing of joy.
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too funny, the dems spent 8 years freaking out, whining, complaining, obstructing....

you guys should be a little more honest about political stuff and not view life through your partisan prism
 
Dungheap said:
Does it really?

And you're really screwing up Damo's point here. The plan is to lay the ground work for an attempted Republican filibuster of whomever Obama nominates.
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I'm making a side point on Damo's point- that's called "conversation".

Since Alito believes in original interpretation this is a threat to Obama's agenda that requires the Constitution to be usurped, or ignored.
 
my guess is, that by the time the the Senate needs to vote on Obama's SCOTUS pick, Coleman's options will have been exhausted, Franken will have been seated, and the whole filibuster discussion will be moot.
 
Dungheap said:
Does it really?

And you're really screwing up Damo's point here. The plan is to lay the ground work for an attempted Republican filibuster of whomever Obama nominates.
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I think using a rare filibuster on a SCOTUS nominee would be a useless waste of whatever political clout that Rs may have left. No, I think it would be a bad plan to filibuster the appointee, just vote for or against and move on... when you are up against it the way the Rs are, picking and choosing the right battles is important.
 
even if filibuster were an option, it's foolish to to attempt one when all they are doing is replacing one liberal for another on the bench. it would change nothing.
 
Mottleydude said:
He's probably the closest on SCOTUS to my personal politics. Considering I voted for Bush 1 I guess that shouldn't be surprizing.
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and mott... weren't republicans the ones who coined the phrase, "elections have consequences"? They DO. The republicans lost this last one...and the consequences of that loss are that they get to sit on the sidelines and whine while a democrat puts in as many liberal judges as he has openings for.
 
maineman said:
and mott... weren't republicans the ones who coined the phrase, "elections have consequences"? They DO. The republicans lost this last one...and the consequences of that loss are that they get to sit on the sidelines and whine while a democrat puts in as many liberal judges as he has openings for.
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coming from the biggest democrat whiner for the past 8 years....LMAO
 
Southern Man said:
Are you seriously suggesting that Souter didn't morph into a liberal when he got this lifetime gig?
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Interesting.

I don't really recall his appointment to the bench, but from what I've read Souter was generally an unknown quantity at the time of his appointment and was pressed upon Bush the Elder by John Sununu who assured Bush that Souter was more reliably conservative than Ken Starr(!). As it turns out, Sununu was incorrect and Souter was quite moderate.

I don't believe there was much "morphing" involved and suggestions that Souter is "liberal" is kind of silly. He's basically a Rockefeller Republican, not really conservative but not really liberal either. If he were in the House or Senate he'd probably fall right in with Collins, Snowe, Specter, Nelson and Bayh.
 
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