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Originally posted by Gattigap
Calm, sensible, reasoned commentary and questions on what the GOP will do with their victory.
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I don't know, but the thought of "Chief Justice Clarence Thomas" makes me sick. I think O'Connor should be C.J., but her vote to uphold Roe will disqualify her in the minds of Bush's people. Scalia is even more polarizing than Thomas. Kennedy or Souter? No way.
Even if you put politics and other issues aside, I can't believe that a Justice who refuses to ask questions at oral argument (apparently because of some ill-defined, incomprehensible "principle") could be fit to lead the Court. (God forbid that you might learn something from asking a question).
On the economic side of things, I have no problem with keeping taxes where they are instead of increasing them on high-wage earners. (A system in which the top 5% of wage earners pay 50% of the nation's income taxes, and the top 50% of wage earners pay 96% of the taxes, is "progressive" enough from my point of view.) But the Bush administration and the Republican-controllled Congress have abandoned any semblance of fiscal discipline or restraint.
Maybe the Republicans should get a Capital One credit card and a DiTech federal-land equity loan. That way, they can make one nice, low, consoldated monthly payment and put us on the path to solvency!
CDF
