An opening on the Supreme Court: I propose a special DUZY award for funniest comment to:

[DFW]

Of all people, Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

His comment was:

“I trust the president will choose a nominee for the upcoming vacancy based on their experience
and even-handed reading of the law, and not their partisan leanings or ability to pass litmus tests.”

:rofl:

Just like the Bushes did when they nominated Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Sam Alito? :puke:

I hope Obama will exercise EXACTLY as much lack of "partisan leanings or ability to pass litmus tests"
as the Bushes did with those three. That would sit just fine with me.

[Wetzelbill]

1. The irony about the RW getting mad about

a minority woman most likely filling the slot, is that they love that Clarence Thomas in on the SC. They act like it's an egregious sin that a Dem may pass over a bunch of white guys to put an equally qualified minority woman on the court, when Thomas is only on the court because he happens to be a black Republican and not even nearly as qualified as many others who could have his slot.

[DFW]

2. Exactly: ideological purity is THE deciding factor

Unless, of course, a Democratic President is doing the selecting.

THEN, of course, ideology becomes a mortal sin.

If Obama nominates someone like Stephen Breyer, McConnell would scream
as loudly as he would have screamed if Obama had nominated Angela Davis.

[Mist]

3. As many have pointed out, the Rethugs will scream no matter who Obama names, so he's free to

name whoever he wants. NOTHING will turn down the volume of Rethug poutrage, so it's best to ignore it.

[DFW]

9. I hope Obama takes your advice.

One of the most important, no, VITAL, reasons that we needed to elect a Democratic President
was to ensure that the Supreme Court got no more Thomases or Alitos, like McCain had promised
to do. Obama has the responsibility to nominate not only legal competence but ideological
competence. I don't mean allegiance to some political philosophy, but the ability to conserve
the freedoms the Constitution bestows upon us without curtailing them to please some political
base (Alito/Roberts), or to carry out a personal grudge on society (Thomas).

My fervent hope is that Obama, as a former professor of Constitutional Law, realizes the
importance of competence over political expediency. Pick the best, not the most politically
correct. Clinton did. The Bushes did not. He doesn't have to look far into the past to find
"how to" and "how not to." He has a LOT of talent to pick from, fortunately.

You are right, by the way. The radical right will scream like a stuck pig, no matter who it is.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Now there would be a choice to properly balance the Supreme Court--Angela Davis!

The whole country would be reading minority Supreme Court opinions, because they would be so right on, so kickass, so on the side of ordinary people, citizens, voters and humanity in general, so pro-labor, so pro-civil rights, so well-written, such good analysis, and so opposed to rule by global corporate predators and war profiteers. And I can see her pushing for legal commissions on the assassinations of the 1960s-1970s, the secret government, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the war on Afghanistan, and on 9/11 (both the WTC and the Financial 9/11 of 9/08). There is no end of good that a real Supreme Court justice--a truly independent Supreme Court justice, representing a truly independent, equal, separate branch of the government--could do--with moral force, as well as legal opinion. The majority in the country would, at last, have at least one seat on the Supreme Court acting in their interest, and in the cause of the true rule of law.

[CTyankee]

10. Ah, but the Republicans simply said that Thomas WAS qualified!

And they trotted the Dean of Yale Law School down to the hearing to give a gold plated Ivy League stamp of approval on him. The Dean of Harvard Law School, however, testified that he thought Thomas was NOT qualified, but the Yale imprimatur was enough I guess to let Thomas pass muster.

Living in New Haven, I have seen Yale do some rotten things, but this was the rottenist IMO. They also gave an honorary degree to GWB but not without some howls of protest from lots of Yalies. And at least an honorary degree didn't affect us the way helping to saddle people with a horrible justice on the Supreme Court did.

[DFW]

11. The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court

That was, simply put, the most heinous, cynical, contemptible act ever committed by George H.W. Bush
in all the years he was in public life. He did some other funky stuff, of course, but THAT was an act
whose foul stench contaminated the Supreme Court in a way that would have only been rivaled if the
Senate had confirmed Carswell or Bork, which it did not.

[Dappleganger]

4. They ALWAYS repeat the same BS

These people are still stuck in the Stone Age, although they won't admit they were ever there.

[DFW]

7. I don't think they even realize that time has moved on.

Either that, or they think it moves backwards.

[formercia]

13. The one-trick pony n/t

[formercia]

5. Off to the Greatest page.

K&R

[mmonk]

6. Well hypocrisy is a Republican by word. All I hope for is a Supreme Court Justice that can count.

;-) Ot at least willing to let others do it.

[spanone]

12. i hope the President appoints a scotus without any thought to the fucking republics

[L0oniX]

14. Mitch McConnell always looks like shit is about to come out of his mouth...

so I am not surprised when it does.