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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:14 PM Mar 2012

Something we ALL need to realize.. Nothing is EVER "settled law".

At least nothing is ever "settled" as long as there is a republican around to UNsettle it, at every opportunity.

Basically, we are rocks, and they are the steady drip drip drip of water. they never , ever stop trying to undo things that have been "done" in the past (or present).

Too many democrats (I am guilty of this too often too) breathe a sigh of relief when good legislation gets passed, and then we move on to the "next" thing in our long laundry-list of things we need to /want to do.

Republicans are bullies. They always want things THEIR way or NO way. Every time they lose , they only consider it a temporary setback, and they have always been willing to plod along as long as it takes.

There are a ton of frivolous lawsuits always in the works, as every law they do not like gets challenged. These are not filed to do anything more than hopefully end up in the SCOTUS, where the right-leaning court will "see things their way".

Politics is a blood-sport to them, and "winning" is all they want, even if it means that the people who send them there, lose.

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Something we ALL need to realize.. Nothing is EVER "settled law". (Original Post) SoCalDem Mar 2012 OP
What we really need is mikeh106 Mar 2012 #1
Yes! bongbong Mar 2012 #2
Those two will leave on a coroner's gurney SoCalDem Mar 2012 #3
Maybe Scalia Will Go On Another Hunting Trip With "Deadeye" Dick Cheney AndyTiedye Mar 2012 #4

mikeh106

(7 posts)
1. What we really need is
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:19 PM
Mar 2012

Obama's reelection and a couple of SCOTUS vacancies - preferably Scalia and Thomas. I can only hope.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
3. Those two will leave on a coroner's gurney
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:48 PM
Mar 2012

The one who will leave soonest is Ginsberg, and we will NEVER get one even close to her "liberal-ness"..

We'll be forced again into a "moderately" right-leaning dem to replace her....

AndyTiedye

(23,500 posts)
4. Maybe Scalia Will Go On Another Hunting Trip With "Deadeye" Dick Cheney
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 07:59 PM
Mar 2012

I think we'd all be willing to chip in on the
Wouldn't want them to get thirsty in that hot Texas sun.

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