[JSteff]

"And even if there is a Democratic President and it gets past Congress and the White House, it will be shot stone dead by the Supreme Court. Good luck getting past THAT!"

So should have the CFR law... it got past the supreme court. So let's leap ahead 3 years. Bush did not get another conservative on the Supreme Court... the new democratic president did get his candidate on.

What now. For that matter, how much confidence do you have that this Supreme Court?

[Vicomte13]

"For that matter, how much confidence do you have that this Supreme Court?"

I have lost confidence in all of them...the President, Congress (both parties, in both houses), the whole judiciary, state government, local government.

To me, it looks like a sprawling, corrupt, short-sighted, self-interested mass. I see France 1937 here, and I don't see any prospect for improvement either. The foundations themselves of the country have rotted away.

I am pessimistic about outcomes in all directions.