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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:18 AM
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Conservative warns Obama: Pick Garland or else
Curt Levey tells Salon there will be a big fight unless Obama's new Supreme Court pick is very moderate

Salon spoke with Curt Levey, the director of the Committee for Justice, a GOP group originally founded to push George W. Bush's court nominees, about how Republicans might react to the selection of a new justice. His message? There will be "an interesting conformation fight this summer...unless nominates someone very moderate."

For Levey, "very moderate" means someone like Judge Merrick Garland, a Clinton-appointee to the United State Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Garland, along with Solicitor General Elana Kagan and Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court, is widely thought to be the one of the mostly like candidates to replace Stevens.

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According to Levey, Obama will be precluded from picking a nominee championed by liberals -- such as Harold Koh or Pamela Karlan -- anyway: "Given the election and given that his political standing is not as strong as it was last summer and given that he has to seriously worry about losing some of the red state Democrats like (Blanche) Lincoln or (Ben) Nelson if he nominates someone too far to the left." In light of this, Levey believes that Wood would be the closest "progressives would get to someone they could really embrace."

Link: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/04/09/stevens_replacement_levey_reaction
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:21 AM
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1. fuck that!!! they are going to bitch about anyone. when are the dems going to learn
that no matter what they do the republicans aren't going to be happy. please don't friggin give them what they want.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:24 AM
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2. Trying to scare the left away from what this court TRULY NEEDS - a pro-citizen progressive who will
advocate for open government, consumers and workers.

What this nation doesn't need is yet another watercarrying corporatist doing the bidding of the powerful elite.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:25 AM
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3. No single Republicans voted for the ARRA (stimulus) or the HCR. Nuclear option is necessary
if the Thugs continue to obstruct. They can sit down and sulk.
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:58 AM
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4. Fuck Them, don't these ass clowns know how to lose gracefully?
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:26 AM
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5. If Obama caves to the republicans we will see he is the wimp
the republicans think he is...they lost the damn election. What gives them the right to tell the president and congress what to do. It is as if they think they are entitled to be still running the government. Thank the good Lord they arent'.
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