This
is revisionist shit -- she's the one who gave us George Bush and
Samuel Alito in the first place -- so fuck her.
"She
retired in 2006 to take care of her ailing husband. Sandra Day
O’Connor earned the begrudging respect of young liberals because
she showed an integrity in her conservatism that wasn’t that of an
ideologue. Unfortunately, her replacement—Samuel Alito—clearly
lacks that same integrity, thus far. "
From: "Former
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says Republicans are
wrong,'let'sget on with it!'"
My
take on this:
I
look @ history from a holistic perspective -- we got to this point
because of eight years of George Bush, which also gave us Alito and
Roberts, voter suppression, Citizens United, ad nauseam. History
would be quite different if Gore had been able to appoint those two
judges.
Bush's
absolutely horrendous economic policies destroyed the economy, which
saddled Obama so much in his attempts to remedy the mess, that it
(along with his somewhat attempt to reform the health care system)
led to the rise of the Tea Party, which led to the 2010 debacle with
the state elections being taken over by the right wing leading to the
severe gerrymandering and voter suppression @ the state level leading
to the Republican majority in both branches of Congress, which leads
us now to this intransigent position by the right wing GOP to prevent
Obama from appointing a new Justice.
So
whatever O'Connor has to say now is water under the bridge. As they
say it's the butterfly effect -- that one vote affected history in a
great way.
I
will not forget it and hopefully historians don't as well.
