[WapSaibiar]

I really wish i could explain the joys i get from one-starring Oerdin-Thrades™

[Arbinknit]

Here's hoping for another Souter.

[AlexBrith]

We actually don't, the justices on the court only really have ideological differences with respect to the constitution. Pretty much only Sandra Day O'Connor and whoever that guy was that wrote the opinion for Roe v. Wade have sucked in terms of intelligence recently.

[adarmaSen]

Well, for starters, it's in the constitution, and the other thing is that it would be way worse if they were elected.

[amannddo]

There really needs to a mandatory retirement age for federal judges.

[joeyCanada]

Which would be why I said, in the very first sentence "He's on the liberal side" meaning the liberal side of the court. I then said I hope his replacement is also a liberal and not a moderate. Other wise the right wing bias of the court gets pushed even further to the right.

The reason I'm a bit worried is Obama is always going out of his way to be a centrist instead of doing what his base wants him to do.

[Mowselelex]

If history is any guide it will happen very soon.

[mazabotman]

Long before the election everyone knew 2-3 judges were on the line. No surprise here.

[Symnunidanimb]

Obama single handedly killed the public option by making a deal with big pharma back in 2009. The administration then stopped talking about the public option and began advocating for it being killed behind the scenes. If consider that "liberal" then what the hell would you consider centrist? As for immigration reform, which we need badly BTW, Obama hasn't put any thing on the subject forward and Congress doesn't even have such a bill pending nor will the issue even be brought up in an election year. I don't know where you got that read herring. The allowing oil drilling while pushing up CAFE standards is an excellent example of a centrist position.

In fact, I can't think of a single actual liberal policy Obama has given more then lip service too.

[merloermfgj]

Dude, liberals wanted single payer and but compromised to a public option to buy into medicare at cost but the bill didn't even have that. Essentially the bill was just a moderate bit of insurance regulation reform along with a mandate that everyone had to buy into private for profit insurance. That's about as middle of the road as it gets.

[neguoogleX]

Dude, the entire bill, I mean the ENTIRE bill which was passed was all based upon the Republican health care reform proposal of 1994! Are you telling me the Republicans are raving leftists?

The only leftist compromise in the original proposal was the public option to buy into medicare at cost but even that got thrown over board so literally all we were left with was the basic 1994 Republican proposal. Yet the Republicans even lied about their own proposal and obstructed it. Obama gave away the house trying to appeal to Republicans and the Republicans still cut off their own noses to spite Obama. It's retarded.

[celddiskend]

Dude, liberals wanted single payer and but compromised to a public option to buy into medicare at cost but the bill didn't even have that.

What's the meaningful difference between that and determining what coverage people buy from private companies and at what cost?