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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.)

If anyone needed any additional evidence that Republicans would rather lose than fight, tonight's panel discussion on Fox News Special Report was the clincher. The panel discussed the bald-faced theft of the MN seat election in the US Senate by the Franken thugs (every new "found" ballot is for Franken, even when the ballot is also for McCain, a result statistically impossible in any fair process). Rather than offer a spirited defense of the rule of law and denounce most strongly Franken's theft of the election, the panel yucked it up, admitting that Franken will be successful in stealing the...