[WOSG]

"I think this is quite distressing."

Yes, it is distressing that Farah would fly off the handle, while 85,000 pages of documents indicate he is a very conservative person and judge.

" It's even more distressing that conservatives seem to think that this is a non-issue. Whether or not we agree with Farah's position, we should at least be talking and thinking about this."

Why? and play into the hands of the liberals, who *know* he is the real thing, a dangerously smart conservative, and are using this merely to cut the conservative support for him?

[yooper]

The answer to this whole mess is pretty simple. US Supreme Court Justices affect so much of our daily lives, culture, and law, that they should be directly elected by the people of the United States, and they should stand for re-election on a regular basis. US Senator's used to be appointed by State Government's also, until someone noted that the appointee system only encouraged contempt for the will of the voting public. And therein lies the problem.

US Supreme Court Justices do not have any fear of the loss of their jobs. They are therefore unafraid of passing down idiotic rulings such as the latest private property grab system, a decision which the Founding Fathers would have abhorred. That's how out of touch these justices have become, even some of those justices who we believed to be conservative during the confirmation process.

[dawn53]

Yes, it is distressing that Farah would fly off the handle

Distressing perhaps, but not surprising.

Wouldn't be the first time that Farah had flown off the handle.