The Supreme Court is something I approve of in the sense that it's not the Senate, and so is not the most ridiculous of all American political institutions; as to whether the SC is any more preposterous than the presidency, I'm not quite sure.
It really is all my balls, though.
The shithead kabuki that accompanies SC nominations is a consistent national embarrassment, as it makes politicians feel compelled to denounce politics, which I always find creepy as hell, especially when it's done on the fucking Senate floor. The whole notion that Supreme Court judges somehow ascend to Nonpartisan Legal Nirvana after passing a Senate vote that is always Based on the Qualifications is stupid: in and of itself it is a transparently politically motivated dumb-show that fools nobody except hopeless idiots, drug-addled frogs, the Washington Post editorial board, moss-covered rocks, doorknobs, and Ann Althouse commenters.
Roberts and Alito were proposed and passed because they were hacks in the right place at the right time, and it's far too late to be anything less than apologetic for Scalia and Thomas, who consistently remind us that to be a long-winded lightweight with a durable career, all you have to do is box your corner and try not to piss all over yourself, and then you can act like an obnoxious pompous know-nothing fuck to your heart's content until you die, and get praised for it like everybody isn't pretendng you're not really just a shmuck and an operative and an ideologue. I don't mind Supreme Court appointments being lifetime but I do think every three years they should be trotted out so The Brethren might be quite sincerely pelted with garbage. Though Scalia would probably just eat it. That would be Supreme Court garbage, hummph hummph, fooferaw! Get your plebian paws offa that offal! Grunt grunt fart "my immense dignitude" fart fart stuffing half eaten drumsticks in the robe pockets "for later." Stupid Scalia fuck...
All of which is prelude to saying that to replace Souter Obama is going to nominate a moderate (trendng right, natch) who isn't a horrible old white shit, and this will provoke shitstorms and snivelings galore from our wingnut friends. Because it should be about the "qualifications"! Which means if you're not excited about nominating yet another pasty pre-Vatican II Catholic fucknose, why, you just be in the market for someone as motherfucking absurd as motherfucking Daffy Duck!
Because why oh why can't we ever conduct so ideologically virginal a search as that which gave us our current Federalst Society high court hatchlings?