This is all we need.
Just saw it too. Bush is going to love this.
In anticipation of Bush’s as-of-now-unknown nominee, the libs would do well to dust off such phrases as “turn back the clock on civil rights.”
Scretch, scretch scretch…
He just missed the all time record for longest on the bench didn’t he?
Is “scretching” a combination of “screeching” and “wretching”? I didn’t know it was possible to do both at the same time!
My sympathies go out to this man’s family and friends.
You post count belies that apparently inexperienced description of the capabilities of the regular dopers here.
Ah, but we don’t have a “wretching” smiley on the SDMB!
Either that or it’s scratching while kvetching. Who knows?
Wasn’t there a short-lived spin-off from *Save by the Bell * that was called Scretch & Screech? Twin brothers going off to grad school or something like that?
The timing is poor for Bush. I’m sure the administration was hoping to get the Roberts nomination settled before a new struggle arose. Now there will be linkage between Roberts and whoever the new nominee is.
Reporters asked him earlier in the summer if he was going to resign. He said, “That’s for me to know and for you to find out.”
Oddly enough I guess it really wasn’t for him to know afterall.
back-alley abortions, segregated lunch counters, women won’t be able to vote land, witchs & heritics will be burned at the stake, etc
Seconded. THere will be time for politics later; let now be for his family.
Daniel
Do you mean “retching”?
If anybody could choose a nominee who would actually make me miss Justice Rehnquist, it would be Bush. And there are still three years and some months to go in Bush’s second term (unless he’s impeached or forced into resignation, or O.D.'s); could even be another vacancy before then.
My condolences to his family. Every man’s death diminishes me.
I don’t see that this will have that huge an impact on SCOTUS. Bush can be trusted to appoint a far-right winger. Rehnquist was a far-right winger. Therefore the balance stays the same.
I’m much more concerned about Roberts. O’Connor turned out to be fairly moderate. I’m not expecting much moderation from Roberts.
You know, that’s really lame. What’s he gonna OD on, pretzels?
Alchohol and cocaine come to mind. Come on, do you really believe he "choked on a pretzel way back when. I rather suspect he fell off the wagon, got drunk and fell over.
Damn…
Chief Justice Scalia. shudder