Obama Announces SCOTUS Pick: Sonia Sotomayor. Now Let The Games Begin!
Now watch the wingnut fun begin! Sotomayor, a child of the Bronx, has already been the focus of attacks from the librul media, so we can only speculate as to how much worse the right-wing assaults will be. She'll be seen as slightly to the left of Abbie Hoffman by the time they're done with her:
President Obama this morning will announce that U.S. appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York is his pick to replace retiring justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, White House officials said.
The 10:15 a.m. announcement will be made at the White House, before Obama leaves Washington for a two-day trip to California and Las Vegas that will focus mostly on fundraising events.
The president finalized his deliberations at Camp David over the weekend, and notified his staff this morning.
Media Matters did a roundup of the Sotomayor attacks a few weeks back, including the hit job done by a New Republic writer:
Despite the glaring flaws, Rosen's assessment of Sotomayor was widely adopted by other media figures.
Mark Halperin, Time's conventional-wisdom maven, announced "Jeff Rosen Raises Warning Flags on Sotomayor" and described "Jeff" Rosen as "the New Republic's legal eagle." (What of Rosen's thin sourcing and dishonest quoting? Who cares! It's Jeff! He's a legal eagle!) The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder touted Rosen's piece as a reflection of "the respectable intellectual center." (Ambinder's colleague, Ta-Nehisi Coates responded: "You don't get to be the 'respectable intellectual center' and then practice your craft in the gossip-laden, ignorant muck. Not for long anyway.")
If the "respectable intellectual center" approached the prospect of a Sotomayor nomination by doctoring quotes in order to trash her intelligence, you might wonder what the disreputable fringe did. Well, National Review's John Derbyshire and Mark Hemmingway described her as "dumb and obnoxious," but they weren't really moving the ball forward in the anti-Sotomayor campaign; they were just interpreting Rosen's work.
Fox News' Andrew Napolitano told listeners on his radio show that Sotomayor "has a reputation for not being a very hard worker" -- like Rosen, citing anonymous law clerks to back up the claim.
Even David Letterman got in on the act. Here's Bob Somerby, describing Letterman's Sotomayor sketch:
Letterman's clip was openly racial/ethnic, a throwback to what once seemed to be an earlier day. With it, he gave viewers a throwback first impression of a sweaty, crazy, yelling jurist -- of a woman who graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in her real life, among other acts of distinction. But this astounding bad judgment by Big Humor Dave followed an act of grotesque judgment by the New Republic's Jeffrey Rosen. Rosen authored a gruesome post built on anonymous sources which -- let's be honest -- openly trafficked in racial stereotypes.
Dumb. Lazy. Temperamental. It's enough to make you wonder how she made it from the South Bronx to Princeton, Yale, and a federal judgeship. And remember: She didn't get there the George W. Bush way. You know many lazy, stupid people who win Princeton's highest academic prize?
Worst of all, there's no reason to think that the treatment Sonia Sotomayor received from the media over the past week will stop with her. The coverage of Sotomayor has clearly been built at least in part on gender and racial stereotypes, so we can probably expect similar coverage of other women and minorities who are mentioned as possible nominees.
Democrats let pass a life appointment of 2 right wing conservative activist judges from an unelected president with a 28% approval rating. Nuke the filibuster if they dare fuck with pick of the president who was given an electoral landslide mandate with an approval rating hovering near 70%. The American people will support it.
Right on!
"Dumb. Lazy. Temperamental. It's enough to make you wonder how she made it from the South Bronx to Princeton, Yale"
The "Kennebunkport Kid" who was born with a silver foot in his mouth didn't work his way up from the south Bronx and didn't get into Yale or make it through with a C average without daddy's connections.
They're just mad because Sotomayor isn't a crusty old white man.
She's from librul NYC, a woman, and looks to me to be of mixed race. Rush and the misogynist racist confederate haters of the reich wing are going to bust a gasket over this.
Fat Lou will be foaming at the mouth tonight.
Because Dobbs still has that candle in his head from Halloween.
...So, they say she's a dumb, lazy, temperamental minority? I say, it they've got one - you know that black guy from Savannah - why can't we have one?
Don't forget angry, like the smear they leveled at Michelle Obama.
I have never heard anyone sound less angry than Sotomayor did in her speech about her life and especially her mother's contributions and sacrifice for her two kids. Her brother is a doctor.
Smearing this woman is going make the smearer (is that a word?) look like a total ass. Of course there are plenty of republicans who have lots of practice at that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales(another Latino, get it?). Rove called Sotomayor an "intellectual lightweight" also on Fox, of course.
I guess reality hasn't hit fox just yet. Those sorts of attacks won't make much noise any more, but that won't stop them from trying. I don't think they want to bring Harriet up after listening to Sotomayor, even if Harriet was bush's bestest buddy.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
of higher education to know a lightweight when he sees one. Hell, he got one into the White House.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
We don't call people who are different names or insult them because we feel scared of them. That's why Democrats are better people.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
personally, i love the pick and especially what it illustrates as far as obama is concerned. he is gradually coming out and tellin the right wing i reached out and you essentially gave me a slap in the face so now i will do what is right.
my opinion, Obama may end up being our greatest president or at least he will argueably end up with the best of them.
Obama will be fortunate if he gets a second term.
I figger he's being set up as a scapegoat. He'll be blamed for not solving all the clusterfucks left behind by the Busheviks, and the Murkin people--with the attention span of a tv show--will believe it when the Puke say, in 2010, and after, that their lives are not better, and Obama will lose a substantial part of his congressional majorities--which aren't worth a bucket of warm spit now, given Nelson and the rest of the RedState/BlueDawgs...
Yeah, the repubs are going to blame Obama for anything he hasn't fixed that Bush broke. Problem is, GOP hasn't been really good with their message control lately and a large percentage of the electorate is getting tired of the hate/fear that is the usual repub message.
Unless Obama himself stumbles somehow or the GOP finds themselves a rainmaker, I think Obama has a good shot for a second term.
Especially if Cheney wants to keep reminding everyone how awful the Bush presidency was all the time.
I think the Sotomayor pick is a great pick. Having said that, I don't think the GOP is what Obama should be worried about in terms of reelection. He is starting to really piss off the progressive movement he helped build online. Those are the people he better be paying attention to.
I hate to sound so cynical, but this nomination by Obama doesn't make me feel more hopeful than before about his policies.
Sotomayer sounds terrific, but the choice of Sotomayor is, I'm afraid, only a sop to the left. It's win/win situation for Obama--he can appear 'liberal' while simply maintaining the balance of power on the court. Very safe.
And doing the safe thing is consistent with most everything else Obama's done and seems poised to do. From his financial appointees to his backing of cheney/bush abuses to the lack of single-payer advocates at his healthcare roundtable, Obama does nothing to rock the republican banana boat.
Lets face it, nothing shrinks the GOP base more than conservatives freaking out publicly. Let them wail shrilly with all their racist bigoted invective, sometimes in code, and the GOP becomes more and more irrelevant.
If only Sotomayer was a muslim illegal-alien lesbian that performed abortions on weekends for free, we could just sit back and watch every conservative keel over dead just from the idea she's been nominated to the SCOTUS
and, as Michelle Bachmun said, "blow their wad early" on this.
they will drag her through the mud, but they will come out sh!tty on this"
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wha...
Time to jump on any/all "No Party" negatives, by hauling out their past rhetoric. They were quick to support the likes of Scalia, Bork, Thomas et. al. so there has to be some stuff to throw back at them. Make the smallness of Repug. mouth pieces expose them for what they are.......
ljmel
What if she's got...EMPATHY?!
Oh noes!
I think there is a medicine she can take if she has it.
I don't care if it's a doctor, a cop or a judge, I would appreciate empathy in all of them. That human touch is nice.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Side effects include vaginal disappearance, caucasoid fantasies,
and religiopus embolism. IF you suffer from restless left wing syndrome, be sure and consult your doctor before taking.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
You're gonna need it, with the grilling you're about to get.
...and guess what?? Geraldo Rivera Loves Her!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Tap the keg!
Obama wins either way. If she gets confirmed, he gains support from both women and Hispanics. If the right block her, they take the heat from women and Hispanics.
I just heard a guy on tv who worked for her as a clerk in the past. He said she is very bright, very fair, and this part struck a note with me, he said she knew everyone's name with whom she worked. He said she knew the janitor's name and spoke with him. He said she is kind to everyone she works with. I like that in any person.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Her actions show a person with good character. It says alot about who she is and is not something that can be taught from a textbook.
I like when they actually vote for conserving our precious separation of church and state...rather than scoring political points with certain segments of the population.
I don't have enough info on Sotomayor's opinions though...there are links out there but I don't have access to LexiLaw or whatever that stuff is linked from.
Yay!
Anyone who watched her speech just now and didn't get a lump in their throat or a tear in their eye, wasn't listening. What an amazing life she has had and is hopefully going to continue. She could not have been more sincere.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
If Suzie can misspell it, so can I!
Seriously, the thugs are attacking this woman based on her gender and ethnicity?
They're dumber than I could ever have wished for...
Please oh please keep calling her a shrill, lazy Mexican!
are already babbling on if she is the best pick, looking at women, looking at Hispanic, looking at fat old white men, etc.
Her acceptance speech was great. She will be one of the best on the SCOTUS.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Judge Sotomayor's imminent nomination to the High Court is going to be a scatological Blue Man Group/Gallagher show, so get your ponchos on, people.
Plus, let's also not forget how horrified the GOP is about bigotry against Hispanic nominees like Gonzo.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
i'm not sure that she isn't too much of a centrist for me, but still, the implosion on the right will be fun to watch.
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wha...
The South Bronx is no joke. Back in day one it was one of the worst neighborhoods in America. She seems nice and smiley but I guarantee there is a LOT of fight and perseverance behind that smile... She's gonna need it. The evil, non patriotic anti-americans who think that Palin is qualified to run a hot dog stand are shitting a pill right now, desperately drumming up phony talking points and ignoring facts.. as usual... yuk.
Now let's go kick some Repub Blue Dog ass!
This woman doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the Supreme Court when she showed herself to be a racist. She was a member of a three judge panel that confirmed the City of New Haven's decision to get rid of a promotion test when they didn't like the demographics of the results. The people affected were white but I tell you this with all certainty that if the most passing demographic had been black or hispanic and the city threw out the results the ACLU, NAACP and most of the posters on this blog would have been raising all sorts of hell. She is a racist pig that shouldn't be nominated for the supreme court when one of her decisions is being challenged there.
The message Obama is sending out is that it doesn't matter what you do as long as its liberal enough I will promote you. He is no better than Bush when it comes to picking nominations.
from the repub and right wing trogs.
like i said above, i think she's too much of a centrist and obama needs to go further left in future picks, but the implosion on the right will be fun to watch.
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wha...
she aint a centrist that is a freaking cover-up. you know what when did progressive liberals abandon their principles. Probably around the same time the republicans did. this country is headed for some rough times.
as yourself, your comments certainly carry a lot of weight and bring just oodles of credibility to your rants as well
I am sorry that when a president nominates a racist bigot to one of the most powerful position in the land I get mad. Maybe I should just not give a shit like you. Lets just give Obama whatever he wants. He knows best. It is telling, that you don't care.
Furthermore, with this pick Obama is just showing the country that he is nothing but a racial bigot with a chip on his shoulder
and ignored.
Because you do not have enough balls to face the truth and go against your "messiah"
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on November 27, 1991, to a seat vacated by John M. Walker, Jr.; Confirmed by the Senate on August 11, 1992, and received commission on August 12, 1992. Service terminated on October 13, 1998, due to appointment to another judicial position.
You sound like the bigot
Ya and she didn't make a racist decision in 1992. If you are going to make an argument make sure it is not a defunct one. So much for the intellectual party
(actually, it was line from a movie)...
"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here."
So you're saying that she's some sort of closet anti-white racist that is just waiting to spring some sort of single-handed decision against "the man"?
At running the risk of treating this conversation seriously, what will you do when you find your race in the minority in a decade or two?
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
You sound like the bigot.
So the so called intellectual party is reduced to making defunct arguments and then repeating the last thing you say, like it is going to somehow miraculously be words of wisdom the second time you say it. come on give me an argument. Live up to your assertion that you are the intellectual party. I beg you. Give me the challenge
...to criticize, trolls like you yell fire in the proverbial crowded theater.
A racist, minority conspiracy to stop the Supreme Court from maintaining it's all white status(yeah, Clarence is white). Lol.
So where is the argument there. Clarence fought for equality. Sotomayer has made a decision to destroy it. so your argument has absolutely no basis. Come on.
Disagreeing with one of Sotomayor's decisions seems fair enough to me.
Trotting out the tired, old "you think he's the messiah" thing is bullshit. No one here is claiming that. In fact, if you read many of these posts, a lot of people on this site have serious doubts about the wisdom of Obama's centrism. Very few of us are under the illusion that he's a progressive. He's not. We're hopeful he'll do some things we believe in, but we're not surprised when he doesn't.
He's a Democratic president--with all the potential for positives and probability of pitfalls that entails. The "messiah" accusation just insults your intended audience. You're going to neither persuade (which it doesn't sound like you really wanted to do anyway) nor bait us. Your comment will simply receive the disregard it deserves.
ok. the messiah part was pure sarcasm.
that your comments were noted and ignored it was you who started out calling her a racist pig. I believe you are the one who brought on the negative rebuttals against you.
.
It wasn't good sarcasm.
Good sarcasm would have been... "I guess the Messiah Obama picked his own Judas..."
It would have taken me days to figure that one out.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
You didn't stay up late last night thinking of that one, did you? 'Cause that isn't bad...as sarcasm goes.
; )
and then I saw his futile attempt to explain that it was sarcasm and that was the first thing that popped into my head.
I got lucky.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
another glass of Kool Aid.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Still using that "messiah" thing? You haven't been reading here long, have you?
far left loon >.<
Flame baiting gets you nowhere, which is where you are.
Obama, Sotomayor, every fucking body is a racist except you.
and tell me how i am a racist. you all are so freaking dumb, stupid and blind. God help America with the likes of you in control.
Yes site monitor go ahead and erase it. I am just despondently pissed off right now
that we have a "minority" President able to pick a "minority"
female Supreme Court Justice is a precondition of being part of the permanent minority that is the Republican white male today.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
You come hear and immediately spout off "flag" words and you expect some of us to greet you with flowers and champange?
You're plain nuts. I thought I asked a couple of legit questions, and you're just going off the rails. You don't want a serious intellectual debate, you just want to find someone or something to hate.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
O wait a second I know why you think that. I don't fall into the ultra liberal group think. So you blindly agree with whatever Obama does. You blindly hate everything conservative and you are so intolerant and insecure in your beliefs you cannot even put up a rational argument to someone who disagrees with. Amazing. Ayn Rand wrote about New Intellectuals and how they would have to rise up and take control of leadership positions. Now that we know our two major leadership parties can no longer lay any claim to that title it is time for someone else to rise up. I predict that as Bush destroyed the Republican Party Obama will destroy the Democratic Party
A) If you've been around this site long enough you would find that most (if not all) don't agree with everything Obama does.
B) We don't blindly hate Conservatives. Yes, some of us think that they have the mental capacity of a piece of furniture, but that's besides the point.
C) We don't put up rational arguements against irrational people. No sport in that.
D) You quote Ayn Rand (see point B)
E) I'm glad to see that you recognize that Bush destroyed the Republican party. However, it was Conservatives that proved to be its undoing (see point B). I hope that your predicition about Obama is wrong. I don't think he will, but rather the Blue-Dog Democrats will do more harm to the party than Obama.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
but I believe that for point D) to be correctly referenced to point B) you have to change point B to read "the mental capacity of a piece of furniture and the literary quality of a roll of bathroom tissue."
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
That was my bad... you're right. Point B should read: We don't blindly hate Conservatives. Yes, some of us think that they have the mental capacity of a piece of furniture and the literary quality of a roll of generic bathroom tissue. However, that's not the point.
Either way, your ass will get burned.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Faux Noise and it's lied up, bullshit anonymous sources.
If they could get the vagina and womb without the rest of the woman and have it cook and clean their "skid marks" they would be very happy.
(I'm feeling extra snarky today).
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Ya....Thats it. My god you have it all figured out. I hate women. Wrong. I have nothing against Sotomayer just against a decision that she made which was racist and there is no outrage from the supposed liberals of this country. Is you memory so short you forget who fought and died and were maimed for civil rights.
and you're willing to condemn her from gaining judgeship to the Supreme Court even if she's the most qualified person out there.
My bad, and for that I apologize. I didn't know that all Conservatives were perfect and not a single one of them ever made a bad decision in their life.
On second thought, what decision are we talking about anyway?
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
No links, no facts. This conservative loonie tune is on the wrong blog.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
but true.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Come on, you know better than to expect facts from some people.
FWIW, I think he's attempting to reference Ricci vs. DeStefano. City of New Haven offered a promotional exam, didn't like the results and tossed them out (out of 44 people who took the test, 19 were black but no blacks scored high enough, and only 1 Hispanic made the target score), and no one got promoted. Ricci claimed he'd been discriminated against. He lost, he appealed.
Sotomayor was one of 3 judges on the review panel that upheld the decision based on the already established precedent, which says that any test or procedure that has a disproportionate impact on a particular group must truly be job-related in order to be legal. In this case, New Haven basically argued that a multiple-choice test isn't really job-related when it comes to promoting a firefighter to a supervisory position.
The panel's agreement is actually in line with prior decisions, which tossed out promotions based solely on test scores as being discriminatory. And in this case, it's not that a black man or hispanic man was promoted over a white man - in fact, NO ONE was promoted.
Is she a liberal and progressive? What are her opinions of the separatio0n of church and state?
Anyway I am so far a bit dissappointed but I'm sure more info will come out.
And, I'l lsay it again. If Obama's nominees aren't secular progressive we are all fucked.
I also can't help but wonder who Hillary might have picked.
My biggest concern regarding the democratic primaries was that Obama, in an effort to 'reach out' might not appoint the right kind of judges that this country desperately needs.
I do not knmow if Hillary would have picked someone better but I do know that Hillary wasn't talking about reaching out and naive crap like that.
...but honestly, that ship has sailed.
Personally, I believe Hillary would likely have appointed a woman. Don't you?
I think she'd appoint a woman but I also think she's appoint a secular liberal. IMO Hillary wasn't about 'reaching out' like Obama was talking about, she was out there to kick republicanista ass.
of the Confederacy. I bet the South would have won the war.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
That would have been the biggest difference right there.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
regardless of race, even in the face of Emancipation.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Maybe so. We'll never know--we have what we have.
I do recall, though, that there was quite a bit of heated debate on this site--1) would Obama pick a woman for the court (and more broadly would he pick "enough" of the "right" women for his cabinet)? I'd say he passes that test; 2) was being "out there to kick republicanista ass" what we really needed in a president? Was that a sound strategy?
We can debate that, but all I'm saying is, I think that point is moot for now. I'm not for acquiescing to Republican "fear and smear" tactics. I'm relatively pleased with Obama's pick (and I do believe he's sometimes been too willing to "listen" to what the "immoral minority" party has to say).
What I'm left to wonder now is, will Democrats show some spine and rally around this pick the way the 'pubs did with Roberts and "Scalito," or will they turn tail and undermine their very reason for having been given such a large majority? The future of the Democrats' "big tent-ness" hangs on that question, among some others, IMO.
Considering the past 8 years, I'd say, YES, knocking the shit out of the republicans even further would be something I think is sound, worthwhile, and completely necessary
"and I do believe he's sometimes been too willing to "listen" to what the "immoral minority" party has to say"
His 'listening' gives them legitimacy when reality dictates they deserve nothing but scorn and contempt.
IMO
From a political perspective, I can't argue with what you said about the necessity of (I'll paraphrase) further isolating and frustrating Republican ideology. I agree completely. There's little--if anything--for me to appreciate in what Republicans offer.
That said, much of the country (if most polling, and the election itself are to be believed) don't want that kind of open, partisan battle. They don't see it as productive. I could be completely wrong, but that's the way it seems. I think that's one reason why Obama got the nomination and not Clinton. Again, just MHO.
Finally, yes, most Congressional Republicans deserve scorn and contempt. Obama may find that trying to practice some degree of "inclusiveness" only comes back to bite him in the ass. Likely. Hard to know at this point--though it seems not even Democrats would avoid piling on him if they smell blood...let along Republicans. That's politics in the U.S. But by at least offering to hear them out, he provides himself political cover in the media (if he isn't, in fact, being sincere).
Will it work? Who knows. Is it the way Hillary would've done it? Probably not. The last 8 (and some would say the last 29--yes, even Clinton's) years have sucked. The ball's in his court now. I'm at least curious to see what Obama will try. I don't like where we are today.
I recall Republicans crowing, "Elections have consequences," after Shrub was installed in '00 and then the '02 mid-terms began to hand more power to the Obstruct-licans.
Well, yes, elections do have consequences. Obama is in, the Democrats have the majority, and this nomination MUST go through. Democrats had better see to it--or there won't BE a Democratic party. Those of us who vote Democratic primarily as "lesser-of-two-evils" waited a long time for another Supreme Court justice we could support.
If the Repubs want to filibuster, I agree with the earlier post--nuke it. But if Democrats (and I guess that includes you, Specter and Nelson, you rats) try to block her in any way, fully expect open insider warfare on your own party. Many of us will work from the inside to destroy you. No joke.
Though we're progressive, we're done being patient.
Well, this is certainly the big - heck, the only - political news item today (or for the rest of the week). Which means it'll be all over CABLE NEWS. And that means, of course, that it will have to be presented as a CONFLICT. Meaning that they'll be telling us of all the RESERVATIONS that Republicans have. With little discrimination between FACT and FICTION.
And I'm waiting for the first pundit or internat troll to say, "Republicans should treat her like Democrats treated Bush's appointees". Fine. That means: 1) no filibuster 2) ideology at the forefront and 3) up or down vote within 70 days.
...Joe Lieberman. Not once! Got that, CNN? MSNBC? He's not a Democrat. I don't care what his mealy-mouthed "concerns" are. I don't care what flavor of instant oatmeal he had for breakfast. Don't trot him out there as any kind of bellwether. Get this through your freakin' heads: we don't care what he thinks.
I don't see anything special with Lieberman. He'll vote to confirm. Heck, worry about Ben Nelson if you must. But since Nelson's not on the Judicial Committee (that I'm aware of), who cares.
repubs and right wingers are melting down. judicial watch and redstate are coming out -- surprise surprise -- against sotomayor
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wha...
I think most folks know where Dave is coming from - it was a crack about those crazy court shows, with a whiff of sexism. As a proud liberal, Bill Maher at al is correct - the left can be super-humorless and that hurts them in the long run. LAUGH. Then get back to the serious stuff.
Dave's bit hardly rises to the level of "Obama the magic negro". Context & source are everything.
But the future population of SCOTUS is not a laughing matter.
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