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The brain-dead pro-Obama "ZOMG!!! Teh Supreme Court!!!!" talking point

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Submitted by lambert on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 3:17pm

Hugh nails it:

Oh yeah, because Romney’s choices will be so much worse. Oh noes! Except for this one little thing or actually 3 things. Democrats hold the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee is composed of 10 Democrats and 8 Republicans. The Democrats could vote down any nominee either in committee or on the Senate floor. Even if they didn’t have majority control, they could still filibuster any nominee. The only way Romney could nominate anyone to the Supreme Court is with the collusion of the Democrats. In other words, if a “terrible” Romney choice made it to the Supreme Court, it would be because Democrats helped him do it. And we all know this is the way it would go down because that’s how all the conservative nutcases currently on the Court got there. So again, this is supposed to make me want to vote for Democrats exactly why?

Please stop using this one, Obama fans. You never help your case by insulting those you hope to persuade with really stupid arguments.

Of course, they won't listen. Never did, never will. Fans are like that. Go on, prove me wrong!

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Submitted by MontanaMaven on

We were screaming to filibuster Alito and Roberts. Didn't happen. Democrats collude. That's what they do. But yesterday on Media Matters radio which I don't normally listen to but was set to Sirius Left because I had listened to Dave Marsh's show, some guy was expressing shock! shock! that Alito had run as a conciliator and shock! shock! turned out to be a conservative ideologue. Oh please! Yes, fans are like that.

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Submitted by jest on

You don’t know it but you are far more dangerous than a right-wing racist warmonger. You are a warmonger and you don’t know it. You actually think you’re doing good

-Walter Wit Man to an Obama apologist.

And now the very same cast of characters (to be fair, not all of them paid trolls) are saying the reason to vote for Obama is that the Supreme Court will be less bad. What a sad indication of moral and intellectual collapse.

Can somebody explain to me why the Supreme Court is important when the rule of law doesn’t apply anymore?

- Lambert Strether

Obama’s joke about “predator drones” for would-be suitors of his daughters was arguably even worse than Bush’s jokes about looking for Iraq’a fabricated WMD in the oval office. It betrays a shockingly cavalier elitist attitude about killing and aggressive war. Why would anyone joke about something so hideous, really, even if (big if) it were absolutely necessary?

- Doug Terpstra

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Submitted by scarshapedstar on

Even if that's the case, does it necessarily follow that the judges nominated in Obama's hypothetical second term would just as wingnutty as Romney's nominees? That seems to be an unspoken assumption in dismissing the whole SC argument, but Kagan and Sotomayor seem decent enough (disclaimer: IANAL).

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Submitted by Card-carrying_B... on

Scalia. Roberts. Thomas. Alito.
None of them happened?

That IS reassuring.

Bush can be Gore again! And Mitt can be just as bad as Barry!

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