Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

This fight is for everything.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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  1. 1.

    Steven

    Actually, O’Connor retiring is a bigger deal than Rehnquist. O’Connor and Kennedy are the swing votes on the court. If a justice who is more predictably in the Rehnquist-Scalia-Thomas camp is appointed and confirmed, it would give Kennedy even more clout. The court would effectively be 4-4-1. As a result, my guess is the Ds will fight harder over O’Connor’s replacement than over Rehnquist’s.

  2. 2.

    James Emerson

    Should be interesting if Bush nominates AG Gonzales, as is the rumour.

    Nominating the architech of torture as a Supreme Court justice would certainly fire up the Democratic opposition. Especially so when you consider their success against Bolton has them momentarily on the offense. And Senator/Presidential candidate Biden would relish the prospect of having Gonzales explain in excruciating detail his legal interpretation of “quaint.”

  3. 3.

    Jeff Maier

    Frankly, coming from this administration, I’d welcome a Gonzales appointment. He was nearly rational in the Texas court and is probably much more moderate than anyone else who I’ve heard mentioned as a possibility.

    NOTE: This is not to imply in any fashion that I’m a fan of Gonzales but he’d be a much lesser evil than Olson, Owens (my fear — replace with another woman) and their ilk.

  4. 4.

    Jeff Harrell

    Bleh. It seems like everybody’s been accused of being an architect of torture at one point or another. Just last week the girl at the grocery-store check-out called me a war criminal because I asked for paper instead of plastic.

  5. 5.

    James Emerson

    To legalize torture Bush had to circumvent three long established and universally recognized legal obligations: The Geneva Conventions; The UN Convention Against Torture; and the UCMJ.

    But in all fairness…Bush broke international and domestic law when he invaded Iraq too.

    So he has been consistent if nothing else.

  6. 6.

    Geoduck

    He was nearly rational in the Texas court and is probably much more moderate than anyone else who I’ve heard mentioned as a possibility.

    That’s what the guy at the other end of the link is saying; that the hard-core right would be up in arms because AG isn’t hard-core right enough.

    Finally, a candidate that everyone can hate!

  7. 7.

    Tim F

    Unfounded rumor.

    That said, it’s known that she’s been meaning to retire as soon as she can be sure of a suitably right-wing replacement. So who knows.

  9. 9.

    Anderson

    O’Connor is one of the last of the Goldwater Republicans, who ironically (given the Dems’ demonization of Goldwater) became a force for stability and sanity in the GOP. I have always admired about her what her critics detest: her deciding hard cases as narrowly as possible. (Remember when “judicial restraint” was a conservative virtue?)

    The likelihood that she will be replaced by a Federalist-Society zealot should be disturbing to Republicans and Dems alike, except (1) revolutionary Repubs who want to tear up the New Deal and (2) revolutionary Dems who want things to get as bad as possible under Repub rule.

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