This is potentially devastating; it's like America is at war for our survival and we suddenly discover that an entire division of our best soldiers has been wiped out, and an enemy division is moving toward the strategically essential position it had occupied. Scalia was not just a consistent vote for maintaining the integrity of the Constitution, he was also effective in questioning and debating while cases were being considered, always making the case for interpreting the Constitution based on what its words and authors say it means instead of what those on the Court would like it to mean. There were not very many of the 9 on the Court who could be counted on to uphold the Law, and now there is one less, and there is one less voice of reason in their debates.
For anyone who might not know, it was Scalia who wrote the majority opinion in the Heller case. I thought the wording could have been better and made the illegality of most current gun control laws more clear, but if an Obama appointee had been on the Court instead of Scalia, the majority opinion would have been written by Ruth Ginsburg, who argued that the 2nd Amendment is a collective right instead of an individual right. And if Obama is able to replace Scalia with another traitor, Heller could be overturned.
McConnell says he'll stop Obama from placing another traitor on the Court, by delaying a Senate vote on the matter until after the election. I hope he keeps his word. Every Democrat and the big lie machines called the liberal press will be fighting him on this, and their methods will be as ruthless as any act of war has ever been. So as another member mentioned, it will be RINOs like McCain who determine the fate of the Republic, since if they do their duty in stopping Obama from further corrupting the Court, McConnell will be successful, but if they cave in like they have a habit of doing, McConnell will be unlikely to have the power to keep his promise. The possibility that Obama might have a chance to appoint another Supreme Court justice was an issue in the last election, and is one of the reasons Republicans were given control of the Senate. But RINOs don't seem to care about things like that, preferring to grovel before their liberal masters.
If it was the other way around, there is absolutely no doubt that Harry Reid and his crew of traitors would stop a patriot president from making another appointment. There are no DINOs in the Senate: every Democrat can be counted on to stand with his party on important issues like this. And this is why keeping the Republicans from nominating RINOs is so important: things like this come up, and we need patriots who will sand and fight to preserve the Republic.
All patriots need to be contacting our senators and sending them this message: Obama must not be allowed to further corrupt the Supreme Court by placing another liberal justice on it. We need to make sure that our voice is louder then the voice of the liberal press that will be demanding that they cave in. And we need to be educating the notorious low information voters about the importance of the Constitution and the difference between a liberal and a conservative Supreme Court justice: the conservative bases his opinion on what the authors meant when they wrote it (called original intent); the liberal bases his on what he would like it to mean. The liberal, in other words, will do nothing but corrupt the law, because the essence of words is what their author meant by them, and if that essence is taken away from the written law then there is no law, and America will become a de facto democracy, with no Constitution to keep the majority from imposing mob rule.
This kind of thing shows that those calling for the impeachment of Obama should have been listened to. And it isn't too late to start. As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense.
One thing on interest I discovered when doing some reading on the Court last night: throughout the history of the court most justices have been protestant. Now though there is not one protestant on the Court; every member is either Catholic or Jewish (and that included Scalia). I'm not saying here that one religion is better or worse than another, just pointing out a subtle change that most of us are unaware of.
