Comments on: Adventures in empathy, with an excursion on today’s funniest headline and (added bonus) a trip down memory lane

By: typos_R_us

typos_R_us — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:41:33 +0000

To get to the left of Souter, the Usurper will have to dig up Mao. Not sure what the Chi-Coms would want in trade.
Stealth? Star Wars? Nancy Pelosi? Taiwan? All the above?
He wouldn’t have any trouble getting him confirmed, after all being dead makes Mao a solid Democratic voter. It would also prevent Justice Roberts from changing Mao’s mind on anything. Dead Communists being even more set in their ways then the average Congress critter. The only real problem would be telling him apart from Ginsberg.

By: sheesh

sheesh — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:32:39 +0000

30 eor . . . I’ll take that bet.

By: eor

eor — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:52:22 +0000

I’m making bets that Bill or Hillary will get this job. Any takers

By: acj

acj — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:35:56 +0000

Oh and by the way, Christianity? Dooh! This country, especially republican is basically Judeism. An eye for an eye. I am not anti-semetic, just the facts Mam.
If this is a Christian nation, I see Obama meeting expectations-got a problem with that?

By: acj

acj — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:31:00 +0000

The only sensitive subject is abortion. Republicans are aware that abstinence is a wash. Sex is everywhere=it’s corporate. Unwanted babies makes welfare…YOU LOoSE.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:05:14 +0000

Man, let’s hope so!

By: talkischeap

talkischeap — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:16:10 +0000

Yes, empathy and sympathy is what we need in a supreme court justice, you know, sort of like the way the empathetic and sympathetic liberal majority voted in the Kelo decision in favor of eminent domain.

By: G Alston

G Alston — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:01:37 +0000

“Before you respond, listen to a little more of what the President had to say on the subject of what he was looking for in a Supreme Court Justice:…”

Who cares? The justice will be vetted according to the law.

What I *do* care about is the biblical nutjob faction of the right wing making enough noise that the candidate is embarrassingly (for us) attacked via the abortion litmus test. This should never be allowed to happen; the only thing it will do is pave the way for the left to insert a remarkably unsuitable candidate rather than a centrist. And although it shouldn’t happen, it will. Why? As Isaac Newton says, for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction…

By: Fat Man

Fat Man — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:31:49 +0000

Given that BO will apoint a liberal based on his/her/its race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. I hope he goes full tilt. Lani Guinier!

The American people need to see this stuff in the light of day.

By: Delia

Delia — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:04:34 +0000

20. bobbcat:

“Indeed. It’d be nice (but of course it’s unconstitutional) if people could be subjected to a test before they approach the voting booth.”
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LOL! If I had my *wish*, I’d have an easy-to-grasp pamphlet handed out to every person who voted, explaining each issue [without partisan slant ha!] and giving a basic background of candidates and their history and what they stand for. With the MSM so left slanted, it’s little wonder why so many people are so ill informed. Shameful really. Not that that’s an ‘excuse’ with as much information as we have access to in this day and age but it would be nice to know people are voting on principles/issues rather than on a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ only.

Meh. Wishful thinking won’t get any of us too far though.