I find very little that I can argue with in your post.

Empathy — yes, judges are supposed to decide on the basis of the law and the facts, but their views of hte law and the facts are unquestionably colored by personal biases. To give one example: in a search and seizure case, Justice Scalia (I think) dismissed the claims that a search was involuntary, because it is commonly known that a person does not have to open his luggage when the police asked. Fair enough, but the defendant in that case was riding a Greyhound bus that was stopped for a routine “naughty and nice” check of the passengers. A US Supreme Court justice knows what his rights are under those circumstances — would the average Dog Rider in those circumstances know?

Roberts and Alito — I can’t speak to why Senator Obama voted against them, but I thought they have dangerous views on the expansion of executive power. Our constitutional and legal history has, for the last 800 years, been a struggle to keep that power in check. Let’s not reverse that trend.

On inauguration day there will be a feeling of optimism and accomplishment not felt by our nation in quite awhile. I’d like to believe that America has gotten past judging people by the color of their skin and this would be confirmed by an Obama presidency. I cannot imagine how gratified minorities of all kinds will feel on this day.

Two new senators will have to replace Biden and Obama. It is unlikely that their replacements will be quite as liberal.

Four to six Democratic governors will be chosen for cabinet positions which will require their replacement.

John Edwards will go away. So will Hillary Clinton.

A woman will not be in the White House for at least twelve more years. (Eight years Obama, four years the Republican successor unlikely to be a woman)

U.S. attorneys will be replaced, more than Bush 2, less than Clinton. No one will care. Congressional investigations will continue regarding U.S. attorneys removed by the Bush administration.

After four years, troops will still be in Iraq although their number will be drawn down by the agreement reached with the Iraqis by the Bush administration. Money and troops will pour into Afghanistan and they will remain there well into Obama’s second term. Afghanistan will not be referred to as “Obama’s war”.

Anti-war protests will be virtually non-existent and poorly attended despite continuation of the war on terror.

There will be no embedded reporters in Afghanistan nor daily reports as to the U.S. death toll there.

The country will be in a recession with high unemployment during the mid-term election.

Bailouts will continue with lawsuits possibly beginning against the U.S. government from those companies not receiving them citing discrimination.

Outside of a few nibbles on the edges, healthcare will continue to be a ballooning expense.

There will be nothing done towards changing, improving, or financing Medicare or Social Security.

President Bush will get the blame for most of the country’s problems for at least two more years.

The U.S. Congress, with bigger Democratic majorities in both houses will need to do what they will within the first two years of an Obama presidency as their majorities will begin to shrink with the mid-term election and continue at the next presidential election (which Obama will win).

There will be no tax cuts, although some of the Bush tax cuts may remain in place.

Few of President Obama’s plans will come to fruition as no one in the Congress will carry them, they will be advancing their own agendas.

America’s dependence on foreign oil will increase, gas prices will not be $1.99 (as they are today, the day before the election.)

The stock market will not reach the Bush 14,000 plus mark until Obama’s second term.

Now that we got the spellcheck cleared up, you care to respond to my overall ideas?

From the nonpartisan Tax Foundation website:

“According to the most recent IRS statistics for 2006, some 45.6 million tax filers—one-third of all filers—have no tax liability after taking their credits and deductions. For good or ill, this is a dramatic 57 percent increase since 2000 in the number of Americans who pay no personal income taxes.

Tax Foundation estimates show that if all of the Obama tax provisions were enacted in 2009, the number of these “nonpayers” would rise by about 16 million, to 63 million overall.”

Tell me who it is who pays no taxes.

“Like Teddy Roosevelt and every President up until Reagan did.”

What are you referring to? Your writing is cryptic.

So who pays no taxes right now DantheMan?

just wondering