Are you preemptively upset with Obama's choice to replace Souter?

[Renew Deal]

Poll question: Are you preemptively upset with Obama's choice to replace Souter?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How can I be upset

When I don't know who it is?

:shrug:

[CoffeeCat]

4. Ok, ok...you don't have to be upset...

...but could you muster a little concern? Come on...you can do it!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. I REFUSE to be concerned, lol!

I happen to trust my President, so there!

:P

[jberryhill]

50. Oh.... I get it...

So your strategy is to say you trust him up front, so that when you are outraged over the selection, you can say your trust was abused and you've been thrown under the bus.

That's a clever plan.

[Renew Deal]

6. If you don't know who it is...you know more than enough to be pissed at Obama.

:D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Nope, I don't think I'll be pissed, either...

So far, I have approved of his appointments...

:shrug:

:hi:

[CreekDog]

43. It's a joke

Just a joke about people getting upset at things Obama has done without him actually having done them. :rofl:

:hug:

[Egnever]

2. you just know it will be someone not _________ enough!

[Renew Deal]

3. Replacing Souter on DU will be like the primary wars with above average cluelessness.

[Uzybone]

5. Yes, he will appoint a corparatist

I'm sure Glen Greeenwald will be pissed as well.

[DrToast]

11. LOL...It is guaranteed Greeenwald will be pissed.*

*

[rwheeler31]

7. Why hasn't he made a choice. I'm tired of waiting for this

guy to do something?

[Renew Deal]

8. The Fox spin.

Until he picks.

[Dragonfli]

9. What a juvenile and and inflammatory poll.

Just what is this poll supposed to achieve?

[DrToast]

13. Well, it made me laugh. That's enough for me.*

*

[nxylas]

56. Me too

Sometimes I swear DU is full of Vulcans ("Your Earth humor is most illogical, Captain").

[Renew Deal]

15. Answer the question.

Though I bet I know what your answer is.

[Dragonfli]

21. Then you obviously have inside information no one else has

I expect the appointment will change the court very little, but I can't answer an unknown.

If I had a name and a history of decisions made perhaps I could help you. It is reassuring you know what my future informed opinion might be.

Tell me, do you know the future thoughts of all strangers to unknown variables or do your amazing psychic powers only apply to my future as yet unknown thoughts?

For the first time in eight years I have not been worried sick prior to a name in the case of an opening, but I imagine your goal is to ridicule people that have somehow pissed you off.

Good luck with that. That is obviously why this board was founded.

[Renew Deal]

23. lol

My goal is to get ahead of the outrage mob on DU. I saw a post that the next justice should be a woman. Let the bickering begin!

[Cha]

71. I think you succeeded,

barely.

[TankLV]

75. And a big THANK YOU for proving the OP's whole point...

illustrated PERFECTLY and you posted QUICKLY!

that gets you extra brownie points...

[usregimechange]

18. I think it is suppose to make you laugh

[liquid diamond]

29. You know a flame war is going to erupt once he makes his pick.

[Dragonfli]

35. Fanning the flames seems counter productive.

Even if it is considered great fun to do so.

[Teaser]

76. what, pray tell, does DU produce?

This place is for shits and giggles. That's it.

[CreekDog]

45. wrong

it will erupt long before that. :rofl:

[CreekDog]

44. making some silly people feel silly

:think:

[Patiod]

48. Uh, to point out how easily DUers get into hissy fits over nothing?

And make those of us with a sense of humor spit out our morning coffee?

That's my guess.

Love the poll!

[unapatriciated]

62. agree....

I can't understand the need that some have in trying to create division where none exist, in an attempt to shut down discussion before it has begun.

[Pirate Smile]

10. LOL - I'm outraged! I'm just waiting to find out why.

:D

[PBS Poll-435]

12. Lacking in experience and He/She may be a Pub.

:shrug:

[DrToast]

28. I've got the perfect pick...

[PBS Poll-435]

30. Her resume seems "light"

What do I know?

[jberryhill]

52. She Has Experience Being Nominated, Though

Heh.

[jberryhill]

51. You know... I was going to suggest her....

Just for old times sake, Obama should nominate her and have her embarrassed all over again.

Aside from which, maybe Conyers will get to serve a subpoena.

[stevenleser]

14. LOL

;-)

[NYC_SKP]

16. You mean 101 days and he STILL HASN'T DECIDED??22???2??

Good Grief, I'm soooooo disappointed.

[PBS Poll-435]

32. You are such an SOB

And that is why I love ya.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

34. I thought I was a "bastid".

You wrote that once to me, I think.

I still LOL thinking about it.

:rofl:

:hi:

[quiet.american]

20. Spot on and funny as hell! lol nt

[Muttocracy]

22. -->

[DefenseLawyer]

24. I am outraged. I knew he was a sellout. n/t

[Robeson]

25. His choice has been lite and less filling!

[stillcool]

26. Yes I am. It just makes me sick...

He has lost my vote. Where's the Change?

[Number23]

27. lol 'Cause you just know, WHOEVER it's going to be

will 'cause all Hell to break loose around here.

[firedupdem]

33. You know it! LOL!! n/t

[liquid diamond]

31. What was he thinking? Obama is a Bush clone!

:sarcasm:

[Wwagsthedog]

36. Remember, Obama picked Geithner and Summers

He can't be trusted to make a reasonable SCOTUS pick.

[griloco]

37. yes

he shouldn't replace souter until he cleans his overloaded plate.
one thing at a time, ya know

[NYC_SKP]

38. Um, welcome to DU, griloco.

:hi:

[NoPasaran]

55. Cleans his plate AND eats his vegetables

No slipping table scraps to the dog!

[Sebastian Doyle]

39. I'm more preemptively upset

with the DLC'ers and Blue Ballers who will vote against the nominee if it's not a corporatist shill.

[Frank Booth]

40. Yes, since it won't be Jonathan Turley.

And I've learned from DU that Jonathan Turley's the A#1 numero uno legal scholar in the whole, wide world.

Plus, I bet Turley won't like whoever Obama chooses, and since Turley's right about everything all the time, I'm pissed as hell.

[jbnow]

41. I am outraged! How could Obama pick that person? Is that

Change You Can Believe In?

That is completely the wrong person and he has betrayed me. That person is the wrong age and/or wrong race and/or wrong sex and/or not progressive/too progressive enough and also I hate their shoes.

[Patiod]

49. I am furious too, jbnow!

I am sorry I ever worked for him!

Next time I'm voting Green/socialist/Libertarian/Nader/not at all!

[CreekDog]

42. haha you have your finger on the pulse around here

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

47. I sure do.

:D

[Optical.Catalyst]

46. Keep your fingers crossed that Al Franken will be seated in time to give us 60 votes

We want the President to get his first choice, not some third stringer that pacifies the right wing.

[Jim Lane]

65. There's no rush. Souter's serving out the rest of this Term of the Court.

The new nominee needs to be in place by the start of the next Term, in October.

We can wait a bit for Al if necessary.

[harun]

53. Not far enough LEFT !!!!!!

[cherish44]

54. Some people just like being pissed off about everything

let them be pissed off, I usually don't let them bum my trip. I'm just happier than a pig in swine-flu virus free shit that it's Obama picking and not Bush.

[nichomachus]

57. The new DU

50% snark (like this post)
20% corporate apologists and party operatives (paid and unpaid)
10% truly confused and naive people
10% freeper trolls
10% people trying to have serious political discussions

So sad. It used to be a really good site.

Oh, well. This seems to have happened to a lot of "progressive" boards now that they've lost their common enemy of GWB.

[Renew Deal]

58. I can guess which of those categories you fit into.

[DevonRex]

64. Go piss in somebody else's cornflakes then if you don't like it here.

[baldguy]

59. I knew I'd be disappointed, and I am.

[Arkana]

60. I'm already sick to my stomach at the prospect of a Supreme Court nominee fight.

[depakid]

70. Actually, I would love to see where the "Democrats" stand

Unfortunately, I suspect that won't be cause for worry.

[Arkana]

72. Supreme Court nominee fights are different.

The party that's in the White House fights tooth and fucking NAIL to get their nominee in. Rahm Emanuel will be the field general and he hates losing--so you can bet he'll go apeshit if any Democrats help a Republican filibuster. Spineless Harry Reid may not marshal the Senate Dems, but you can bet that Rahm will snap them in half if they piss him off over this.

It's a massive embarrassment to an administration if their nominee fails to get confirmed--remember Harriet Miers?

[DevonRex]

61. I have it on good authority that it is the reincarnation of Hitler.

[BlooInBloo]

63. I'm completely poutraged that I won't get my magic equine!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

66. huh?

[nichomachus]

67. Well, since he said today that he's not going to name a progressive -- yeah, I might be upset

He's going to name a "moderate," which means someone who's been vetted and cleared by the GOP -- so the court will still be skewed dangerously to the right.

All of us who were hoping that we would get someone to offset the extreme radical right justices are being set up to be disappointed.

The GOP names radical, foaming at the mouth right wingers. Democrats name "centrists" and "moderates." That ain't what you call balance.

[depakid]

68. I think we can look to the Justice Department picks for guidance

which leads me to expect a nominee with a history protecting the rights of corporations over the rights of ordinary people.

I'd love to be proven wrong on that... but the smart money says I won't.

My bet is also -someone from a degree from Harvard or University of Chicago.

[Teaser]

77. so awesome.

so hilarious. I love DU.

[vaberella]

69. May I be of service?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5576145

[TankLV]

73. I'm still upset about his not personally giving me his ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE...!!!

all else pales by comparison...

where's my TEA BAG?!!!

[slackmaster]

74. I'm not just upset

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more!

[mmonk]

78. I left my crystal ball at the Doctor's office.