The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    11/7: Scalia dies celebrating Romney election. Ginsburg resigns. David Cole and Liz Warren named to court by lame duck Obama. Repugnants filibuster draws nuclear option. Yagadda problem wit' dat?

    By jollyroger on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 7:04pm |

    Just to flesh out the scenario, let us suppose that Scalia blew a brain aneurism reaching for a high note while jovially regaling fellow opera buff Ruth Ginsburg with his favorite Scarpia aria. "Presto, Nino, i fortissimo" urges the cagy Ginsburg, taking quick note of Scalia's reddening face. His body has barely hit the floor when she calmly conveys both the awful news and her own resignation to the White House. She fears that she may not herself survive till 2017.

     

    Desperate to save some scrap of legacy, Obama names Elizabeth Warren (just narrowly defeated by Scott Brown in Massachusetts) and David Cole, (son and intellectual heir of Robert Cole, constitutional scholar and liberal giant of Berkeley's law faculty).

    The predictable Repugnant howls are followed by a filibuster which is obviated when Joe Biden casts the deciding vote to uphold the ruling by newly appointed parliamentarian Tom Daschle who found against the attempt by Mitch McConnell to continue debate on the rule change for judicial confirmations first threatened when Dick Cheney presided over the Senate.

    Lame duck coup or the salvation of the Republic?

    Comments

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of

    by jollyroger on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 7:22pm

    (cont. ) Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping.

    by jollyroger on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 7:50pm

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping. 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 5:59pm

    Very funny. I was thinking a piece of Swiss steak stuck in his throat (that's really bad karma).

    Perhaps extending the lunatic fringe further right creates cover for Roberts. 


    by Oxy Mora on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 8:08am

    Ironic - A piece of Taco shell or burrito?


    by Resistance on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 9:29am

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping. 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 5:59pm

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping. 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 6:00pm

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping. 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 6:01pm

    Robert Cole's own hopes for a Supreme Court appointment had suffered a devastating blow when his star pupil turned his back on politics after helping to manage the successful election of Julie Conger to the Berkeley Muni Court, to pursue a career in stripping. 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 6:02pm

    Mayday, mayday--

     

    This thread is fucked up.. can't edi comment, can't delete dupes, can't do shit.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 6:52pm