What makes me feel warm & toasty about this Supreme Court Justice issue...

[eleny]

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

[NNadir]

1. The good news is that fat Tony eats like a pig, and smokes like a chimney.

The bad news is that a man of his age has a life expectancy of at least ten years more, even with these problems.

[hlthe2b]

2. Supreme Court is an enormous part of why I worked for Obama

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.

[eleny]

5. The fireworks accompanying a conservative judge leaving will be fabulous

[nevergiveup]

3. Yep, I am with you on this one.

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.

[eleny]

6. Oh you've got that right about how it would have been

It would have been over by now or at least with this retirement. We're so close to tipping over.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. I frankly hope that Ginsberg and Breyer will resign in the first term.

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.

[eleny]

7. Well, some of their choices disapppointed them

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.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. Only Souter was a *real * surprise.

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.

[eleny]

9. Oh, I see. I wasn't thinking strictly post-1980

John Paul Stevens wasn't expected to be a lefty. So I included him. :hi: