Scalia Dead

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

I don't think the average American is all that caught up with who is on the Supreme Court...

You might have a point there.

http://ffcolorado.com/blog/two-third...ys-new-survey/

Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t name a single member of the United States Supreme Court, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com (www.findlaw.com).

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

You might have a point there.
Quote:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t name a single member of the United States Supreme Court, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com.

http://ffcolorado.com/blog/two-third...ys-new-survey/

They should be surveying the kindergartners.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by icenine

I don't think the average American is all that caught up with who is on the Supreme Court...

I think you're right about the "average American." OTOH, the GOP base has been whipped into such a frenzy for the last 7 years by Fox and talk radio over how Obama is actively trying to destroy America. Now these same propagandists are telling them that the next SCOTUS appointment is the last straw on the march to Armageddon.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think you're right about the "average American." OTOH, the GOP base has been whipped into such a frenzy for the last 7 years by Fox and talk radio over how Obama is actively trying to destroy America. Now these same propagandists are telling them that the next SCOTUS appointment is the last straw on the march to Armageddon.

Cruz said precisely that on the stump today.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Cruz said precisely that on the stump today.

Of course. Nothing's too low for that deceitful prick.

[Coolidge23]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think you're right about the "average American." OTOH, the GOP base has been whipped into such a frenzy for the last 7 years by Fox and talk radio over how Obama is actively trying to destroy America. Now these same propagandists are telling them that the next SCOTUS appointment is the last straw on the march to Armageddon.

Sort of like the left was doing when W was in office huh?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Coolidge23

Sort of like the left was doing when W was in office huh?

The left doesn't listen to Fox or talk radio. Morever, Dubya took us into an unneeded war and crashed the economy, both things worthy of being upset about. What has Obama done to get the Right so pissed? Expanded health coverage?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Coolidge23

Sort of like the left was doing when W was in office huh?

Oh yes. During W's term in office:

1. W did not, with shameless deception, take us into an unnecessary, hidiously-expensive war of utterly evil effect.

2. The world economy was not plunged into chaos by a ruinous crash of the laxly-regulated investment banking system.

It was all just propaganda. Right.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Let's say Obama does make an recess appointment. McConnell & Co. go berserk, challenge the constitutionality and the case goes to the Supreme Court. The newly appointed justice must be recused and the vote is a tie. This could get pretty ugly and totally disrupt the upcoming elections. We could be looking at a serious political divide unlike say, Obamacare. A single person or an entity can turn the country upside down.

It needs to get ugly.

[icenine]

Obama may be playing the long game again...pick someone so popular and likeable that an unbalanced opposition by the GOP makes them looks so bad before the election that the Dems win or the GOP simply capitulates and gives him the ratification.

Although if I was Obama I would put a real progressive or someone like Holder in right now, and gamble that the Dems win, and his nominee eventually gets ratified two years later. That is the longer game and that is what I would do if I was him.