What kind of USSC Justice should Pres Obama pick?

[ruggerson]

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. How 'bout that Miss California?

She's a spunky gal, and speaks her mind.

[ruggerson]

2. and she comes with her own country

[DJ13]

3. Souter ended up being extremely liberal

I hope Obama doesnt cave and replace him with some middle of the road centrist that ends up too often siding with the conservatives.

[Arkana]

4. A goat.

Associate Justice John Paul Stevens: "Here, to read the Court's majority opinion, Justice...Goat."

Goat: "*bleats irritably, eats majority opinion.*"

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. So.. if Justice Scalia weighs the same as a Goat, he's made of wood"

" ..and therefore?"

"A WITCH! BURN"

(sorry - bad variation on a joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

[Arkana]

7. Aye, and what do you burn apart from witches?

..."MORE WITCHES!"

[AtomicKitten]

5. Since whomever he nominates will be opposed, I say make it a balls-out progressive.

And then let's get ready to rumble.

[ruggerson]

8. that's exactly how I feel

we're not going to have these majorities in congress forever.

[Arkana]

9. This right here is one of the main reasons we have someone like Rahm Emanuel

as chief of staff. Love him, hate him, or whatever, but you cannot disagree with the assertion that Rahm isn't afraid of the Senate GOP and won't hesitate to show his fangs on this.

And rarely, VERY rarely, is a Supreme Court nominee battle lost. Bork was up against a Democratic congress as a far right ideologue, and Miers was shouted down by her own party.

We have control of the Senate, the House, and the Presidency.

Obama has the absolute right to nominate his ideal judge right now--probably more than any time during his presidency.

[C_U_L8R]

10. oh dear lord you just reminded me

Harriet Freakin Miers was nominated.... ay yi yi
How far we've come already.

[realitythink]

11. Cover all the bases!!

A woman of latin decent who is gay, married (legally to a woman), with two adopted children from Guatemala.

[Uzybone]

12. Republican opposition is meaningless, it will come no matter what