Quote of the Day

"The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right."

Supreme Court Justice David Souter

The Party of No Can't Agree On How to Say No

Roll Call reports Senate Republicans are so dysfunctional they don't even know how to oppose President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick.

McConnell, according to a senior leadership aide, has stressed to his colleagues that “it doesn’t make any sense to make any pronouncements in the first 72 hours of a process that could take six months.” Supreme Court Justice David Souter, 69, announced he was resigning the court at the end of this term.

Senate Republican leaders are still fuming over the Conference’s handling of Holder’s nomination for attorney general earlier this year. Leaders had been plotting to ramp up opposition to the nomination but were largely sidelined after several high-profile Senators — including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) — endorsed the pick.

I wasn't crazy about Eric Holder. The Republicans weren't able to filibuster Holder. Hysterical.

Quote of the Day

"LMRM: The nation loses the only goat fucking child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in David Souter's retirement."

Erick Erickson, on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter.

This is the same Erickson that was ready to go into a gun-toting rage. What earned Erickson's rage was a ban on sales of dish washing detergent with heavy contents of phosphate in Spokane County, Washington. Erickson would rather a dangerous product be on the market than have a government recall.