Brett Kavanaugh, new DC Court of appeals judge

[ChairmanAgnostic]

He was sworn into office just before Al Franken on C-Span
he thanked Ken Starr for his education, the vice president for his advice and learned insights and other neocons for showing him the proper path.

If this is the caliber of future judges, America is in deep trouble.

[xxqqqzme]

1. look around - we ARE in deep trouble!

This circuit, traditionally, is the path 2 SCOTUS. All 3 branches of government has been compromised and are now terminally infected w/ neo-kkkon virus.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. silly me.

[cantstandbush]

3. Damn it. Please give me a new party. The Dems are dead!! n/t

[papau]

5. The Dems fight for the soul of the party - or a new party - and the GOP

win and get to choose the judges.

Meanwhile we Dems make sure everyone knows that many on the left will not vote for a "left-center person - like Hillary - because we must force the party to choose those more to the left than to the center.

The Greens are still around and I believe the GOP will again fund them in all races.

[hlthe2b]

4. In early Fall, 1999, I had dinner with a close colleague...

who, like me, had always had a liberal/progressive outlook. When the subject of the election came up, it became clear her husband had had an impact on her--given his own disillusionment with working it under the Clinton administration. When I said without blinking that I'd never vote for Bush* (with considerable surprise at her even asking), she asked me my reasons. Reflexively, I said Supreme Court...the courts. At the suggestion that I was a "single issue voter," I pretty much had to restrain myself to avoid shouting that all other issues are secondary because they have the potential to be corrected. Packing the courts with RW extremists would have multi-generations of impact.

This colleague is one of the smartest women I've ever met. I know my point hit home. I pulled back from contact with her after finding that she and her husband both became highly placed consultants with the Bush* administration, for at least some time. I feel certain they were quickly disillusioned and likely both left, but I can't be sure. I've often wonder if she thinks back to that discussion that night. I was no soothsayer--just had my eyes wide open, that's all. Sadly I've been proven to be right and our children will suffer throughout their lives, right along with us, as a result.

[Marie26]

6. He actually

used to work as staff secretary to the White House, just like Harriet Miers. Who knew staff secretaries had such judicial talent? He'll just be another rubber-stamper for the Bush Administration.