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Hmmmm. Maybe Obama can make a careful and educated choice like Bush and choose...........HARRIET MIERS??????????

Ha ha! Even the GOP knew Bush blew it with that stinker of a choice!

Remember that fiasco?

I love how the GOP gets all worried about the Democrats doing something that the GOP got away with doing the past 8 years! Which was appointing conservative Bush cronies to the Supreme Court for political reasons as well as the firing of federal prosecutors based on political affiliation! What a bunch of hypocritical slime balls! I don't think it could possibly be any more obvious!

What's happening to the Republican party? Their entire agenda seems to be to mindlessly oppose whatever President Obama tries to accomplish. Obama hasn't even nominated Souter's replacement yet, but already the neocons are hysterical about it.

We can assume that Obama will nominate a liberal – someone who represents the American people instead of the corporate elite – but since Souter has been left-leaning, a liberal replacement won't change the balance on the Supreme Court.

Republicans all seem to think that the squeaky wheel gets oiled. They're failing to see that when it's squeaky AND malfunctioning, it gets replaced.

"Hatch argued that words such as "empathy" are "code words for an activist judge, who is going to … be partisan on the bench."

Didn't mind activist judges putting Bush in office. Basically an "activist judge" is any judge you disagree with... Code words? Is Hatch just a little paranoid?

What people object to is the fact that Bush felt free to appoint two far right judges: and it shows in their opinions. But President Obama is not supposed to appoint anyone less conservative.

People object to the fact that the Republicans are already writing and speaking against someone who has not even been asked, much less announced. At this point, if Barry Goldwater appeared, alive and ready to serve, the GOP would still blindly denounce him – just because Obama selected him. They've already made up their narrow minds – why bother with them?

The hypocrisy wears mighty, mighty thin.

The party of "NO" at it´s worst.... We are against whomever the President picks. We want him to "FAIL"...

MOST of the whining I see and hear these days is STILL from the liberals.

Oh yeah, and the nominee should be a female, minority little person, JUST TO BE FAIR.

Does anyone really expect the Republicans to NOT put up a fight against his picks? Considdering all his cabinet appointments, I can't see any possiblity that he'll choose anyone even SLIGHTLY moderate.

I sincerely hope that Obama picks an extreme left wing pro choice anti gun nutcase to the court if anything just to equal out the nazi wingnuts that Bush put in with Roberts and Alito. I sincerely hope that 2 or 3 more Justices go out before 2012 preferably Thomas Scalia and Kennedy so we can put this court back where it belongs. Out of the hands of bible thumping idiots.

The Liberal members of the Supreme Court are so far left that moderate conservatives would have to be considered ultra conservative.

The President should be looking for the Supreme Court replacement to be able to have empathy, you can understand a persons plight without having to walk in their shoes. I feel that it helps any person who is in a position of leadership to make good and sound decisions.

Did our recent Clown President take any of the concerns of the Democratic Party under consideration when he chose Alito and Roberts? Absolutely not, because he was the decider. I hope the idiots on the right make this into on on three ring circus. It can only embolden the Dems and make the Repugs look even more primitive and less relevent to the current century in which we live.

Frankly, at this point republicans should simply be ignored. It is pretty obvious that Obama can select a religious fundamentalist for the supreme court tomorrow and republicans will still be against this nomination on general principle. So the only way of dealing with republicans at the moment is simply to ignore them . When this party become more constructive and political consultation stop being complete waste of time then their opinion will worth something, but not now

There is nothing wrong with President Obama wanting a justice with real world experience who can at least relate to the common American when considering the law. The republicans would have a lot more credibility if they at least waited until they know who the nominee will be before they start criticizing.

OMG, Justice Souter (a moderate) barely announces his retirement, and James Dobson's "christian-evangelical, gun-toten, bible-thumping, torture-loving" hypocrites want to steal President Obama's responsibility to pick a replacement, just so the GOP can replace a moderate Souter with right-wing wacko ditto-head like Sarah Palin.

You mean the republicans think putting a judge with partisan views on the bench is wrong? Really?

In all seriousness, its quite likely there will be 60 democrats in the senate and it will be very hard to get a filibuster going. So while the republicans certainly have some negotiating power it would be a mistake for them to push too much against a very popular president.

...unlike Dubya's activist choices to the Scalia Court of the United States who are yanking the country back to it's antebellum period (as in pre-1860).

If Obama picks a true centrist, it will be a partisan choice as far as the far right is concerned. McConnell and Cornyn will find a friendly mic and video crew and wring their hands about the imminent death of the Republic. There will be promises of filibuster and forgotten will be Frist's chant of "up or down" sometimes spoken as "upordown"

What a bunch of hypocrites.

It's the president's call. Will Republicans ever grow up? NO.

Leave us women along. It is not for the government to tell us women what to do with our body. You republicans talk that talk you believe in smaller govenment but want the government to be all up in our lives. Republicans like government as long as it is telling us what we can and can not do, but when it is to help the American people they scream big government. Repubicans what women to keep their unwanted babies, but don't want government to help them take care of unwanted babies. Republicans know that having unwanted babies keep the poor poorer and don't want the government to provide the poor with any help. So why keep a baby you know you can not take care of and no the govenment don't want to help either.

please don't press our prez on anything republicans. you folks got 2 picks so sit down and shut up please. let this prez run the show, you repubs squallered 8 yrs. now be quiet. now some sugguest he look outside the judical place for a candidate, like a person from politics oh hell no. you type of people, will and have sold your souls. i pray he won't even look your way. he should stay away from all you K STREET HUSTLERS.

Disgruntled Republicans won't approve of President Obama's choice no matter who it is...that's their nature!

YES REPUBLICANS !!!! It will a judge with a feeling for we lowely people. A judge who understands the complications of life. A judge who you (republicans) won't like. BUT guess what... It's the Democrats turn now. Our President Obama will do the right thing, he will give us the best of the best....

Typical Republicans, fighting before they know what they are fighting about.. the party of NO confirmed once again.

If Republicans feel "empathy and understanding" is liberal idealogy, what does that say about them?

"judicial activist" n. – a term used by Republicans for any judge that exhibits one or more of the following:
- awareness that we're living in the 21st century, not the 18th
- actually considering the arguments of a case before making a decision rather than automatically handing down the most conservative opinion possible regardless of the facts of the case
- believing that the Founding Fathers intended for all people, even non-conservatives, to have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- disagreeing with Rush Limbaugh on any issue

Considering that, I certainly hope that Obama chooses a "judicial activist" or the country's going to be in worse shape in the future than it is now.

Why should he pick a woman, hispanic or black? How 'bout the most qualified PERSON??? Now THERE'S a novel idea.

Democrats dismissed the GOP charge, arguing that Obama — a former constitutional law professor — would tap a candidate committed to equal justice and not use a high court opening to pursue a partisan political agenda.

That right he will select someone that believe in equal justice which is not a white far right person. Look like they have alot of them al ready. Needs check and balance. Latin or Black woman botton line. There ARE already a white woman, 7 white men, and one black man. SO GO FIGURE!

the 400 families who own the wealth of the nation

alos own three branches of the government

of the 400 families

by the 400 families, and

for the 400 families.

there's no room for their slaves, uh, the people.

In the case o"The Nine",nothing will ever change.They are bought and paid for by people you will never see or hear of.Roe vs Wade will never be overturned as long as Republicans can use it to keep their base.Its all they have to keep their ever shrinking party from dissolving into to nothingness.

Didn't President Obama Say The Following;

"Obama this week said he was looking for a person of intelligence, excellence, integrity, and "empathy."

what is so scary about this if I might ask? Sounds like what anyone would want in a jurist. Not some Right Wing Corporatist Hyper Religious Nut!

Relax Republicans, talking in codes, secret hand shakes, No jacket in The White House, His Wife Arms, Smiling Too much with other leaders, Meeting with 3rd world leaders and much more!

Point A: Pres. Obama knows more about the U.S. Constitution and constitutional law than Romney and Hatch combined–times a thousand.
Point B: GOP panties are all knotted because Obama will appoint a "liberal." Well, Sen. Shelby admits that Republican Presidents appointed conservatives, so hello hypocrisy! And besides, he would just be replacing one "liberal" (Souter) with another, so the balance of the court wouldn't change.
Point C: Repubs will bellow and snort no matter who the President picks, because they have proven time and again that they are nothing but The Party of No.

I wish the shrieking GOPs would SHUT UP.... Why shouldn't Omaba pick a left-leaning judge? What do these idiots think the Bushes picked if not right-leaning judges. GOP: They're like a bunch of whiny little brats.

The stark attitude difference between the GOP & Demos are forever etched in our minds......The first GOP presidential debate with 11 white candidates on the stage......and no one else.....the last 2 supreme court appointees....ditto, ditto.......The GOP has managed to garner majority support amongst this group, which makes up about 30% of AMerica........Their almost complete disregard of every other ethnic group, as well as women in general, has been, and will continue to be their undoing.....unless and until they wise up and realize that our wonderful country has been built through good will and diversity, they will continue to be marginalized and ignored.

Mr. Romney, you lost your party's nomination for president. You have lived privileged and sheltered life, far removed from mainstream America. Please, shut the heck up and pay your taxes.

Of course, I didn't expect the president to propose a stimulus bill with a partisan political agenda...

Like the GOP told us when Bush picked the court:

-What? Do you expect a Republican to put a moderate or left leaning judge on the court?

Well, isn't this poetic justice

-What, do you expect Obama to put A right wing, religious zealot on the supreme court?

President Obama could nominate Jesus Christ to the bench and the Party of No would say, "No!"

Judicial activism?

Let me see who of the 9 supreme court justices has always sided with businesses against the people? And who has actually looked at the constitution and ruled according to it?

hmmm.