He's too invested in being a judicial troll to offer up his seat to an obama appointment.

he could very well be dead before the end of the Presidents first term.

hey, if mcDonalds can be a person, why not a dead body?

... and he'd be just as thoughtful a Justice dead as he is alive.

Legally, this is, of course, not an option.

Age and weight have to catch up with him sooner or later. I'm betting sooner.

Show the chart that describes how Obama gets the Senate to confirm liberal judges. I'm really looking forwarrd to seeing that chart.

You will not need a chart to show how Mitt gets the fascist ones: Consider his advisor is Bork.

You mean those two liberal justices got confirmed with relative ease? Hmm.

Kagan & Sotomayor lean left, but aren't Liberal by any stretch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/may/11/elena-kagan-obama-supreme
http://www.google.com/search?q=kagan+not+liberal
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/17/abcs-greenburg-sotomayor-not-liberal-activist-almost-conservative
http://www.google.com/search?q=sotomayor+not+liberal

It always smacks of desperation when someone has to go back to long-discredited gibberish and op-eds by angry third-partiers in order to justify claiming something that has clearly been proven not true.

"Round up the usual suspects to post non-sequiturs defending the DLC and right-of-center Democrats!"

...American people vote for Democratic senatorial candidates in November 2012 and the Democrats keep control of the Senate as a result.

GET OUT AND VOTE.

Right swamp-lover?

In today's bare-boned and polarized political environment, saying "I'm still undecided" can generally be taken one of four ways.

1) "I haven't been paying attention,"
2) "I suffer schizophrenia,"
3) "I made up my mind ages ago, but I want to look hip,"
4) "DURF DA HURF IMMA LICK ME A LIGHT SOCKET TODAY HUR HUR HUR!"

There's just not enough nuance to really justify an "undecided" position, nor are the parties similar enough to really justify non-partisanship, despite doomsaying. Not that this is necessarily a good thing, but that is how it is.

I'm
1) Ignorant
2) Mentally disturbed
3) Lying
4) Stupid

I guarantee the vast majority of them can't name even one Supreme Court justice, let alone the conservative v. liberal make-up of the bench, past or present.

Right up till then and immediately after, I'll continue to judge him exactly as I'd judge any other president doing what he's doing.

PB

So on what issues do you differ from liberals? Do you want single payer? Do you want to end the warsss? Do you think that the Bush/Obama tax cuts for the 1% should end?

Tell us where you stand. Plez.

He and his party will be doing everything they can to fulfill their dream of a "permanent majority". Forget any "liberal majority" on the court if that happens. We'd be lucky to get a right-leaning moderate put on the court. EVER.