I wouldn't go that far, but hopefully Senate control will have a moderating effect on the judges President Obama chooses to nominate. We saw that effect in the Clinton Administration.

Decencyevolves, you lack a sense of proportion. I get it--he supports the death penalty, so he's A-ok in your book. However, John Hickenlooper is a profoundly evil man who shouldn't be anywhere near public office. It's one thing to oppose the death penalty. It's another thing to run on a platform of death penalty support and grant indefinite reprieves. It's still another thing drag out a reprieve process that is surpassing narcissistic. Then, it's still another thing to drag out such a process only to belch out some juvenile nonsense justifying a decision to grant a quadruple killer an indefinite reprieve. If all of this were in a vacuum, it would be worthy of ridicule, but not much else.

But Hickenlooper pulled all of this in the context of four murder victims' families who, it must be stressed, didn't ask to be relatives of a murder victim, nor did the surviving victim. Imagine, for a second, being one of those people--waiting patiently for justice to be done. It would be one thing to have the rug yanked out from under you---quite another to be forced to witness Hickenlooper's narcissistic ... display of faux hand-wringing. The hell he put those people though--and for what, to help out a capital murderer?

Repulsive is too mild a word, and you "decency" evolves let out a huzzah for this moral pygmy. Either you're ignorant, in which case, you shouldn't be taken seriously, or you're just good with all of this. Which is it?

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For an incumbent governor to have the majority of votes cast to throw him out is hardly anything to crow about. Yes, Hickenlooper won another term, but he won by a whisker in a race that nearly all political observers expected to be a cakewalk not too long ago.

Two of Obama's Justices signed off on the appalling Plata decision which continues to get real people hurt. Had persons of sense been appointed, there are people who would not have suffered the awful experience of being a violent crime victim. That, in my mind, means he shouldn't be trusted with a single nominee to the federal bench.