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calimary

(81,238 posts)
5. Well, you can either have Hillary nominating Supreme Court justices - or you can have
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 11:26 AM
Jan 2014

chris christie doing it. You like antonin scalia? You'd get eight more of him if christie's in charge. I'd suspect he'd have his minions looking for ways to create openings in the Supreme Court that he could then fill. If you've pulled this shit since college and only earned good stuff like more prominence and higher office and more sycophants and more people doing more bowing and scraping, and there seems to be no check on this and no downside - well then, why wouldn't you keep overreaching? Welcome to the "fuck 'em, who's gonna stop me?" mentality.

Thanks but no thanks. We DO have a choice. Some might call it a lesser-of-two-evils kind of thing. I call it a no-brainer.

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