Oh Bummer!?!

Pro-Mitt Argument of the Day (REDUX) “ I’d just ask you to keep four things in mind: Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year, Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. In addition, Justice Ginsburg has Pancreatic Cancer. Justice Stephens has already said he would retire and is just waiting for Obama to be reelected. The next president could appoint as many as 4 new Justices over next 8 years. This election is about more than ObamaCare Tax.   We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court — in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come. If you don’t think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you’re smokin’ something funky. Which brings us back to Colonel Travis’s point. The Supremes are about to hear the huge health-care case. How worried would you be about it if we had a Supreme Court whose last two justices, instead of being Sotomayor and Kagan, had been chosen by a guy getting advice from Bob Bork — by a guy beholden to the same conservatives whose near-mutiny forced President Bush to appoint Justice Sam Alito? ” That, from a March 23 NRO column, resonates more now than ever. BTW, cuzzin ricky added a fifth reason to keep in mind— Justice Eric Holder. But, even if Romney is elected with landslide numbers, and Republicans take the Senate, there's still reason to worry.  Ginsburg has already survived pancreatic cancer longer than any human in history, and Stephens could very likely resign Wednesday, November 7, giving Obummer  the opprtunity to remake the court in his image.  Oh, bummer.