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still_one

(92,190 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 12:56 AM Apr 2015

Here are 321 reasons why it’s very important to vote for a Democrat in 2016

"Consider some numbers.

When Americans go to the polls on Nov. 8, 2016, pixie-ish destroyer of sloppy conservative legal reasoning, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will be 83-years-old.

Belligerent scofflaw Antonin Scalia will be 80, as will the only Supreme Court justice whose vote matters: Anthony Kennedy, aka “Tony the Swing Vote.”

The next oldest is Stephen Breyer, who will clock in at relatively youthful 78-years-old.

From there you drop down a decade to Clarence Thomas who will be 68 — although it is possible that Thomas has already departed this earthly realm since he has yet to speak from the bench and his clerks may be running some kind of “Weekend at Bernie’s” scam because they need the full term to pad out their resumes.

83 + 80 + 80 + 78 = (carry the 1) 321 years and reasons why the next election might change the course of the next thirty years in America — or longer depending upon whether my hunch about Thomas is correct."

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/here-are-321-reasons-why-its-very-important-to-vote-for-a-democrat-in-2016/



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tkmorris

(11,138 posts)
1. So we need to vote for someone who will appoint GOOD USSC judges
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:01 AM
Apr 2015

I agree. I don't think just anyone who slaps a 'D' after their name will do though. We need someone who walks the walk.

still_one

(92,190 posts)
3. Ginsberg was appointed by Bill Clinton, who didn't always "walk the walk". However, looking at past
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:13 AM
Apr 2015

republican appointments verses past Democratic appointments, I think it is pretty clear that every single potential or declared Democratic candidate will appoint good USSC justices

Not so with the potential republican candidates. When bush was running for president he was very straight forward with the kind of SC justices he would appoint, and that is exactly what he did

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. We can't get an AG confirmed and you think the senate
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:08 AM
Apr 2015

Is going to pass a decent Justice with 60 votes ?


I think we need a President that can persuade the Senate that a liberal justice is good for America. Not an easy task but Hillary might be able to do it.

still_one

(92,190 posts)
6. so will 99.9% of the folks on DU. Who the nominee is will become clear in the coming months as we
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:59 AM
Apr 2015

see the primary candidates are

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