Posted on 11/26/2008 5:53:04 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Barack Obama might have as much power to shape a new court as Reagan. Like Reagan, Obama could appoint as many as three justices before Inauguration Day 2013. John Paul Stevens, 88, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, are of retirement age, and Ginsburg is a colon cancer survivor. David Souter, 69, has reportedly expressed an interest in returning to his home in New Hampshire. (Kennedy, who has twice had minor heart procedures, is 72, as is Scalia.)
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1.) William Ayers
2.) Rev. Wright
3.) Michelle Obama
Of course, if the Republicans balk, he will need Maverick John McCain to once again spring to the rescue and thwart them.
Oh, it’s not a war; just philosophical fisticuffs. (/s)
The only question is how extreme will Obama’s choices be? Obama may decide to stake his political capital on an open near-Marxist, or play it safe by choosing someone who’s uncontroversial.
I think he’ll pick Cass Sunstein.
He’s a proponent of “Libertarian Paternalism”
Laurence Tribe - Biden’s buddy.
Lets hope only the liberal 4 retire in the next 4 years. Obama’s picks won’t do much to the balance of power in that case.
Kennedy leaving would be bad. Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, or Alito leaving would be a disaster.
Can they dig Hitler’s parts up and run him? Would seem like a logical choice for this group.
Prove he’s natural born, and then maybe I’ll care.
Never thought I would say it, but “God bless and watch over Justice Ginsberg”
Too old.
His wife, Samantha Power, a former (resigned over her "Hillary is a monster" comment) foreign policy adviser to Obama, is a rabid anti-Semite who has advocated using "billions" of U.S. dollars and deploy U.S. military to stop "Israeli aggression" against Palestinians. A lovely couple. Just the sort of typical Obama friends the media kept hidden so that Joe Idiot American would vote for him.
It’s a disaster in any case—which is one of the reasons I voted for McCain. Because even if he only replaces the liberals, he will be replacing tired, sick, aging judges with young judges likely to be on the court for decades.
One tool the Republican Senators MUST employ is to raise the abortion issue. Obama never would have been elected if he hadn’t gone stealth on the abortion issue with the complicity of the press and, I’m afraid, McCain. If the Republican senators raise enough of a fuss about it, he won’t find it easy. And they should take a leaf out of the Democrat playbook and be just as obstructive as they can.
Ginsberg, Scalia, Stevens, Souter and Kennedy could all be replaced by Obama.
Whatever Leftist activist judges Obama picks,if the GOP has a filibuster going the Dems will pull the “nuclear option” and laugh at the “Gang of Fourteen” buttheads after they thank the fools for allowing so many vacancies to remain open.
Thank Bush and his stupid “new tone.”
It’s not fair to say no good deed goes unpunished,but it IS fair to say all stupid deeds go exploited.
> Laurence Tribe - Biden’s buddy.
>> Too old.
If they’re picked by liberals, I want ‘old’... the older the better. ;-)
I'm not seeing how someone could be appointed who is much more liberal than she is.
You know, it never fails to amaze me at all the things that are blamed on President Bush...but, blaming the gang of fourteen on him is just plain stupid!
I also voted for McCain because the judge issue weighed heavily on my mind. If Obama is around for two terms and was able to replace someone like Scalia, it would be a disaster. The judge question is also one of the reasons why we conservatives should not be supporting RINO Senate candidates (real RINOs like Sauerberg & Snowe, as opposed to "he agrees with me 90% of the time but I fanatically hate him for voting against me on one bill" mindset) Durbin is a terrible Senator, but what's the point of replacing him if the new "Republican" Senator is just going to sit back in an Obama administration and rubber stamp the same far-left kooks that Durbin would? It speaks volumes that the Dems did everything they could to destroy Clarence Thomas in 1991, but only 3 GOP senators even bothered to vote against Ginsburg when it came to a floor vote.
But of course, 1.4 million Illinois Republicans voted for Sauerberg to "beat Durbin" (that sure worked out well for them, didn't it?) and only 23,000 of us protested, so the ILGOP has the blessing of the grassroots to run more crappy RINOs in the future.
I still support allowing voted to elect or at least have the power of retention over federal judicial appointments, like we have in Illinois.
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