[green iguana]

Would have been worse eh?

We wouldn’t have gotten:

Souter -> Sotomeyor

And we might have looked forward to:

Ginsberg -> ?

Stevens -> ?

Right now, I don’t.

[null and void]

We wouldn’t have gotten:

Souter -> Sotomeyor

Agreed. Not Sotomayor.

At best we would have gotten an insipid luke-warm nebbish acceptable to the far left...

...in the spirit of bi-partisanship, and retching across the aisle.