No difference?

UPDATE: This guy has now filed a judicial conduct complaint against himself.

Of course, there's nothing stopping him from just retiring, right? Except that the black guy would get to appoint his replacement.

It's an election year, and as November draws near we can count on the usual drivel from people who claim there's no difference between the two parties and there's not a dime's worth of difference between President Obama and whichever assclown winds up with the Republican nomination.

So I'll just point something out.

In his eight years as president George W. Bush appointed two Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States (including one Chief Justice), 62 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 261 judges to the United States district courts.

The Supreme Court appointments get most of the attention, but the lower court judges are also important, not least because they form the pool from which Supreme Court justices and Circuit Court judges are frequently drawn. We also know that Bush was notably more successful getting judges appointed and confirmed than President Obama has been.

When we have a Republican president this is the kind of appointee we get:

HELENA — Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers. Cebull, of Billings, was nominated by former President George W. Bush and received his commission in 2001 and has served as chief judge for the District of Montana since 2008.

The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: "A MOM'S MEMORY."
The forwarded text reads as follows:
"Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

I won't reprint the supposed joke, but even this guy admitted that it was a racist joke (while denying that he is a racist).

This guy was appointed to the court a mere six months before Bush was installed in the White House by the corrupt, Rehnquist/Scalia Supreme Court.

Vote for whoever you want, but remember the consequences.