When Sandra Day O'Connor (a moderate who leaned conservative) retired, GW replaced

Hawaii Hiker

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Sun May-03-09 09:23 PM
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When Sandra Day O'Connor (a moderate who leaned conservative) retired, GW replaced

her with Sam Ailito (a far righty whose so far right that if the earth were flat, he'd fallen off)....

Obama's pick should be able to go left of Souter, just like Ailito was to the (way) right of O'Connor...

We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting a liberal on the court...Last I checked, Obama won a landslide election & part of that had to do with many in the country not wanting the Supreme Court full of 9 Antonin Scalia's...

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Flying Dream Blues

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Sun May-03-09 09:25 PM
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1. No kidding. You're right, and don't forget Roberts, too. nt

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PBS Poll-435

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Sun May-03-09 09:29 PM
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2. Roberts went from "Associate Justice Nominee"

Edited on Sun May-03-09 09:41 PM by PBS Poll-435

To Chief Justice.

In a matter of minutes.

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usregimechange

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Sun May-03-09 09:34 PM
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3. I agree

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TahitiNut

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Sun May-03-09 09:40 PM
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4. The 'right' doesn't backstab the 'far right' like the 'left' backstabs the 'far left.'

In the above Subject line, replace 'left' with 'center' and 'far left' with 'left' ... since there is NO significant 'far left' in the U.S. and hasn't been for fifty years. (There IS, however, a 'far right.')

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TheBigotBasher

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Mon May-04-09 12:44 AM
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8. Indeed the battle in US politics is between the Centre Right and the Far Right.

The issue has always been how the Republicans have been able to frame the centre right as "radical liberals". I said on my post on health, the GOP may try and portray the Democratic Party as "socialist" but it is far removed from being so. In comparison to political parties across the World, "Liberal" Democratic Senators are still seen as centre right, which places Conservative Democrats on the right and the GOP on the hard right.

That is why I strongly oppose the term "moderate democrat". The moderates are in fact those deemed "liberal".

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FrenchieCat

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Sun May-03-09 09:40 PM
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5. That's why we should be writing LTTEs and writing to the White House!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TOOL

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

Write the President! http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT /

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Hawaii Hiker

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Sun May-03-09 09:53 PM
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6. I agree, & BTW, I wrote a letter to the WH Friday about Souter's replacement

:woohoo:

You get 5000 characters on the WH contact form, so all DUers should send in a good letter on this (or any) important subject...

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grantcart

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Sun May-03-09 11:56 PM
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7. more important than their ideological stance is their ability to convince others

It would be great to get a Douglass but he alienated everyone else. I would accept somebody that was similar to Souter if they could help move other justices.

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opihimoimoi

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Mon May-04-09 02:53 AM
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9. The Pres should pick whoever he wants after consultation with staff and Team

Never mind the Pubs...they are MOOT

Its whats BEST for AMERICA...not the PUBs...

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TankLV

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Mon May-04-09 01:54 PM
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10. Totally agree...

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mvd

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Mon May-04-09 01:59 PM
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11. It won't be that hard to go to the left of Souter

Edited on Mon May-04-09 02:00 PM by mvd

He's a good and fair Justice, but his conservative side sometimes showed on police matters and business matters.

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ErinBerin84

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Mon May-04-09 02:09 PM
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12. yeah

and the media urged Bush right along to pick a strong conservative, while they are telling Obama that there is already a strong liberal on the bench (seriously, I heard that), so we need a more moderate, and he best not piss off Hispanics and Women. It's annoying. I'd like the best of both worlds.

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