Hilary?

Nah, she’s doin’ too good as SoS.

Bob in HI

I hope retirement is kind to Souter. He was far better than anyone had hoped.

Between Obama taking up the Bush mantle (torture, war, domestic surveillance) and the D’s always claiming they need to appease the R’s, Souter’s replacement may not be quite so much the happy choice fun judge that many on the rational side of things would like.

Personally, I expect to see Scalia lobbying to have himself nominated as Souter’s replacement – because there’s just too much legal brilliance there for only one robe. (/snark)

And not that he’ll read it, but thanks Justice Souter, you ended up being a far better justice than I could have hoped.

Oh boy, something more to scream, bitch and whine about!

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman today. Bobo seems to have learned a small lesson. He’s no longer writing about matters economic when he’s paired with Prof. Krugman. Today he’s addressing another topic he has no personal familiarity with: genius. In “Genius: The Modern View” he says the latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical take on great accomplishment. It’s not I.Q., but deliberate practice. Prof. Krugman, in “An Affordable Salvation,” says gradually implementing an emissions-limitation program now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got lemon poppy seed muffins this morning. Best wishes for much happiness in New Hampshire to Justice Souter, and now it’s time to cross our fingers… I’m not sure how it got here so fast, but Happy May Day. (Where did April go?) Have a great day.

I had a case with judge sotomayor back when she was a district judge.

all i’m gonna say is: No. Please. No.

I can think of three occasions during the Reagan/Bush-I years when an appointee turned out to backfire deliciously on the Rethug agenda.

Souter was the greatest of these; vouched for by John Sununu as a mini-Bork without an assailable paper trail, he turned out instead to be a model of independence and intellectual integrity. I am so very sorry to see him retire.

Then there was Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. A cautionary tale for us progressives. When Reagan nominated Koop, liberal groups fired back vehemently because of his anti-abortion-rights views. Yet in the years when Ronald Reagan refused to even utter the word AIDS, Koop dragged the Reagan administration, kicking and screaming, into acknowledging and publicizing the public health imperative of condom use. I still remember the PSAs he cut, shown on commercial television, using the word “condom.” In those crucial years when HIV infection was still a virtual death sentence, Koop saved lives that would otherwise have been lost had he merely fulfilled the limited expectations of Reagan’s ideologues who thought it would be fun to have an anti-abortion Surgeon General.

The third I have in mind, less well known, was Dr. David Kessler, installed by George H. W. Bush as FDA commissioner. To the consternation of many Republicans, he took his job as a regulator seriously, most notably in attemping unsuccessfully to bring the regulation of tobacco under FDA control. He also brought new scrutiny and standards to pharmaceutical marketing and industry-sponsored medical education; working in this field, I can tell you that my bosses routinely cursed his name. He continued for a stretch under Clinton. Again, things would have been a lot worse had he merely fulfilled Bush I’s expectations of him.

Opposition to Obama’s nominee is just what the R’s needed to shake off the doldrums (whatever a doldrum is), get unified again, return to their core priniples, expose Obama for the socialist/facist that he is and show the American people that they are the party most capable of running this country.
It’s just what the dr. ordered for the R’s> You’re gonna see a dffucking renaissance.

Right?

I know Judge Karen Schreier who as a USA appointed my ex as a AUSA. I followed her rulings for several years and was impressed. She was a Clinton appointee both as USA and to the bench.
PS morning all

Arlen fucking Spectre or Fat Republicrat Rendell. They’ve done so fucking much for us already, it’s hard to choose. Be the first Pennsylvanian since Owen J. fucking Roberts fucked up the New Deal.

MoJoe just gave a speech saying that repubs view S.C. nominations differently than dems. Said repubs show deference to the pres and think he should get the nominee he chooses. He used as proof that Ginsberg was approved 97-3.
We shall see. Hope someone’s saving that tape for when Joe starts trashing Obama’a choice.

Obama really needs to stick it to the disloyal opposition.
Dawn Johnsen sounds good.

But unfortunately, on Rahm’s advice, he will proably go
with a senisible centrist. Like Arlen Specter or Ruth Marcus.

Good morning.

Sorry to see Souter go. But iirc, he really doesn’t like living in D.C., so I wish him a happy retirement. We’re lucky he didn’t retire last year.

Biggest financial excitement of the day is in Omaha, where the Oracle is conducting his annual meeting. cnbc is gushing all over in anticipation.

If he nominates Cass (Let’s not criminalize policy differences) Sunstein, my pitchfork and I will be on the streets in DC!

I’ll be with you!

Bill Clinton.

The GOP would explode. Emergency rooms would get more aneurysm research done in the week following a Bill Clinton SCOTUS nomination than at any time in history.

Sorry, I know it won’t happen. Not even sure if I’d support it. But damn wouldn’t it be funny?

‘If Obama wins, I’ll be the first one to retire.’ — David Souter, confiding in a friend last summer.

Whomever Obama chooses, Souter has provided Republican Senators with a golden opportunity to showcase what complete asses they are. Should make for riveting C-SPAN.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com