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2005-07-01 Home Front: Politix

Breaking: Sandra Day O'Connor to Retire From SCOTUS

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Posted by Frank G 2005-07-01 10:08|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeeeeeeeeehawwwwwww!!!!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-01 10:20|| 2005-07-01 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe I should clarify, now we can replace her with someone that has a predictable position and not have to worry about her "switch back and forth" bullshit.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-01 10:22|| 2005-07-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I wish it had been Ruth G. stepping down.

I find O'Connor's hairsplitting compromises to be amusing.

Posted by mhw 2005-07-01 10:35|| 2005-07-01 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 When it's 5-4, a vote's a vote. Ginsberg, Breyer, Kennedy, O'connor, Stevens, doesn't matter which one, just one.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-07-01 10:42|| 2005-07-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Or Souter.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-07-01 10:56|| 2005-07-01 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I have a feeling that this confirmation battle will make Justice Thomas' look like a kindergarten fight. I do not relish the thought of having to hear Chuck Schumer bloviating every day for the next eight months.

Posted by Raj 2005-07-01 11:12|| 2005-07-01 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm to the point though, that if that's what it takes, so be it, Raj! Of course, I'll always turn it off/to another channel when Schmuker's on!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-07-01 11:13|| 2005-07-01 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 A muscular man wearing black leather clothes and black glasses rings at her door, and, with an Austrian accent, asks: "Sandra O'Connor?"....

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-07-01 11:15|| 2005-07-01 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 She probably had to resign to defend her house form expropriation efforts.

Whatever else you can say about her, she is the justice who looks most like one of the Founding Fathers.

Posted by Matt 2005-07-01 11:30|| 2005-07-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Get ready for whomever Bush nominates. Stories of how he/she took an extra cookie once in knidergarden or how they once turned right and not left after leaving the office.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-07-01 11:30|| 2005-07-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, GWB ought to put one of his recent appointees up to the Supreme court You know, the very one from California? Highly rated by the Bar association, a history of fair and solid rulings, good leagal scholar as well. And since the "dirt" has been dealt alrady during the appelate court nomination process, there is little to impede a Supreme nomination.

Except the fact that this candidate is Conservative, Female and Black.

The Dems will have a sh*t fit if Bush nominates Janice Brown.

It would be worth it just to see the histrionics - and how they try to demagoge her without looking like racist misogynists (and fail).

Posted by OldSpook 2005-07-01 11:54|| 2005-07-01 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 It would take balls for GWB to do this (He has shown them in the past, though) :

Kozinski 1
Kozinski 2

Judge Alex Kozinski

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-01 12:00|| 2005-07-01 12:00|| Front Page Top

#13 The Dems will have a sh*t fit if Bush nominates Janice Brown.

Jesse Jackson would call her an "Oreo", and it'd go downhill from there.

Maybe it was just a Texas thing - Oreo = black on the ouside, white on the inside. Coconut = brown on the outside, and .... Well, you get the idea. Maybe we'll get to hear new variations over the next few months!

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-01 12:04|| 2005-07-01 12:04|| Front Page Top

#14 "Whatever else you can say about her, she is the justice who looks most like one of the Founding Fathers."

ROFL!!! Beverage alert, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-07-01 12:12|| 2005-07-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Good for you, Sandy baby! Don't forget to lighten up!

Posted by John Riggins 2005-07-01 12:14|| 2005-07-01 12:14|| Front Page Top

#16 More interesting if the Prez waits until Renquist steps down (immediately after O'Connor replacement confirmed I imagine) Then nominates Janice Rogers Brown to replace Renquist...

{Slap myself} Been reading too much Machiavelli again.

But it would be so cool!

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-01 12:15|| 2005-07-01 12:15|| Front Page Top

#17 Jeesuz, Matt's right! She looks like George Washington after Hair Club for Men.

Posted by tu3031 2005-07-01 12:16|| 2005-07-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#18 Does R. Bork have a son?

Posted by Red Dog 2005-07-01 12:48|| 2005-07-01 12:48|| Front Page Top

#19 Yes, Red Dog, he does. Listen guys, not to rain on your parade, but if I am not mistaken Judge Brown is very weak on the Second Amendment. That is not acceptable.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-07-01 13:15|| 2005-07-01 13:15|| Front Page Top

#20 Riggo - forgot about that one :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-01 14:01|| 2005-07-01 14:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Well, that's put the cat amongst the pigeons, right enough. Popcorn time. I like mine with Reggiano parmesean...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-01 14:17|| 2005-07-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#22 I find it disgusting that SDO is given recognition for anything other than her 24 years of service.

She single-handedly made partial birth abortion acceptable, killing countless children in the birth channel.

Yet we are going to be deludged with how great a jurist she was -- bull

Posted by Captain America 2005-07-01 14:26|| 2005-07-01 14:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Mebbe it would be fun to put Bork forward again. If only he wasn't approaching 80. Sigh.

Posted by .com 2005-07-01 16:03|| 2005-07-01 16:03|| Front Page Top

#24 Of the list os potential replacements that Fox just reviewed - on in particular leaped out at me: Ted Olsen. That he's qualified is indisputable - bio. Zell Miller likes him. He's strong on 2nd Amendment Rights.

Side issues:

1) His wife died 9/11 on Flight 77, which will make the conspiracists foam at the mouth. They have already got a pile of BS conspiracy shit to play with about her.

2) He was the Republican representative in the "disputed" 2000 vote in FL and represented them before the SCOTUS. Another apeshit response from the "selected" not "elected" Kool Aid Krowd.

The list of sites you find if you Google his name that, literally, hate him is very encouraging. A Hillary Clinton site hates him. There's a reference to an RB article, too. He actually sounds something like another Bolton.

Posted by .com 2005-07-01 18:32|| 2005-07-01 18:32|| Front Page Top

#25 Sheesh.

Of the list of potential replacements that Fox just reviewed - one in particular leaped out at me:...

Posted by .com 2005-07-01 18:34|| 2005-07-01 18:34|| Front Page Top

#26 heh heh wonder if Zell has any desire to serve?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-01 19:05|| 2005-07-01 19:05|| Front Page Top

#27 Zell Miller. *sigh* Frank, you have the lovliest ideas... ;-) He does have the most lovely sense of duty, that the President could tap into, and he's been retired almost long enough to be bored stiff...

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-01 21:11|| 2005-07-01 21:11|| Front Page Top

#28 Sure would make opinions fun to read...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-01 21:33|| 2005-07-01 21:33|| Front Page Top

#29 Don't let the misspellings get to you. Just change your name to muck.com

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Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-01 23:06|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-01 23:06|| Front Page Top

#30 Sure would make opinions fun to read...

Counsel's argument reminds me of an ol' coon dog I once had . . .

Posted by cingold 2005-07-01 23:09|| 2005-07-01 23:09|| Front Page Top

#31 LOL - that's exactly what I had in mind....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-01 23:10|| 2005-07-01 23:10|| Front Page Top

#32 Ted Olsen is top-notch. Too bad he is so aged. We need someone in there for the next three decades.

Posted by Captain America 2005-07-01 23:42|| 2005-07-01 23:42|| Front Page Top

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