Bad News for Obama (which means good news for America): Justice Kennedy Not Ready to Retire

Let’s start Monday Tuesday off with some good news: Conservative Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the 74-year old Reagan-appointee, has no plans to retire before 2012.

And why is this especially good news? Well for several reasons —

1. Obama has already done significant damage to the Court with the “Wise Latina” confirmation.
2. And while the Kagan nomination will simply be one uhinged activist Liberal (Kagan) replacing another one (Justice Stephens), she’s young and will have 30-40 years on the court to try to force her Liberal ideology on the rest of us via the bench.
3. Obama will not be elected to a second term, at which time Kennedy can retire and hopefully a good and consistent Conservative (something Kennedy has not always been) can fill his seat.

However, sadly, I’d bet you dimes to nickles that Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, whose health is a serious issue, will retire before Obama is shown the door, giving him the chance of appointing 3 unhinged Liberal activists to the bench in his single term-Presidency.

Justice Kennedy is the court’s “swing vote” between the four reliably Conservative/Pro-Constitution justices and the four Liberal activist justices. Denying Obama the chance to swing a lot of votes on important issues (you know, like the second amendment) is perhaps the single most important issue facing us today.