“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Friday, February 12, 2010

A SCOTUS appointment for Obama in 2010?

CNN is reporting to it's 12 remaining viewers that the Obama administration is quietly preparing for a possible Supreme Court vacancy this year following the June recess. Smart money is picking John Paul Stevens to be the next to step down though he has neither confirmed or denied that rumor. The question is, what kind of justice will Obama nominate?

The easy answer is that he'll go with a radical, activist lefty to drag the court away from the middle. But, how will his nominating radicals play in the upcoming elections? If Americans, already wary of the Obama administration's far-leftward slant, think he's stacking the court against them too, it'll give conservative candidates ammunition on the stump...

"A vote for me is a vote to keep the system checked and balanced against Obama-style socialism and an activist court".

Obama would certainly want to wait until after the mid-terms but, what if republicans make huge gains and even win back one or both houses of congress? He'll have to rely then, on the self-marginalized media to do the heavy lifting for him. The MSM will try to goad conservatives into voting for a liberal justice but, the incumbent carnage of the midterms that we all hope happens, will make the remaining judiciary committee members think twice about abandoning their conservative election promises.

A virtual cookie to the first reader who can name, without cheating, the justices in order(left to right). You're on the honor system not to look them up.

5 comments:

Bill said...

Front: Kennedy, Stevens, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas.

Rear: Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor.

ed said...

Bill wins the virtual cookie. You are in the 1% of Americans who can correctly ID all nine justices.

Bill said...

Whoo-hoo!

David said...

What just happened?

Unknown said...

I think we can always rely on Republican Senator Lindsay Graham to reach across the aisle and vote for the most Liberal nominee Obama can muster in the name of Bipartisanship.

What get's me is, he voted to confirm Eric Holder as AG and then proceeded to take him apart in Senate Judiciary committee hearings for his support of 9/11 civilian trials for Terrorists.

Why did you vote to confirm this idiot, Mr. Graham?