this morning, our behated monkey fuhrer announced his(?) choice to replace retiring supreme court justice, sandra day o'connor, picking Sammy Alito.

regardless of the fact that he is a good or bad judge, listening to NPR (i believe it was Robert Siegel) talking about the impending announcement this morning and he made the comment describing Sammy as "a judge committed to the law". i realize that he probably read what someone dug up, but M had the same reaction i did.

what an empty and pointless statement to say.

shouldn't we all be 'committed to the law' as proper law abiding citizens? and shouldn't judges be especially 'committed to the law'? i certainly hope so.

the other comment that was made by someone (i think it was an interview with someone, but i don't recall who) was that Sammy 'respected prior judgements'.

that too doesn't say a whole lot, now does it?

as a semi-civil person, i may respect your opinion on a subject, but i certainly do not have to AGREE with your decision. i may respect a judge's decision, but i don't have to AGREE with their decision.

just because you respect someone's decision/prior judgement, does not mean you are required to agree with them.

so where does that leave us? pretty much where we started, only knowing what little we know about Sammy to begin with. nothing is advanced other than the waste of our time. (which you have just done if you read all the way thru this)

and for shits and giggles, i listened to a few minutes of the monkey fuhrer do the announcement, and it was nothing short of a reading from the A volume of Encyclopedia Britannica with a half-assed joke about how Sammy and monkey fuhrer are both married to librarians.

thank goodness for Residential goodness....