True, but there is much more that the Supreme Court is there for than to keep Roe v. Wade in place. Look at the landmark decision not too long ago forcing the Bush Administration to give legal representation to all the detainees in Guantanomo.
Hell, Obama might even get to appoint 4 justices to the court. Stevens, Kennedy (both of whom either want to leave or pretty much have to leave cause of old age), Ginsburg (78), and even Scalia (72) might all be gone. Scalia certainly doesn't want to leave, but 8 years is a long time when you are that old.
But I agree the backlash would be extreme if Roe v. Wade was overturned. There are very few times I would say that something that happens in our government would provoke an assassination, but overturning Roe v. Wade would probably be one of them. Probably 20-30% of the country would be flat out enraged.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
