"is just the person to carry this administration’s water when it comes to re-writing laws from the bench."Gentlemen, launch your swift boats, fire up the all-purpose pejoratives, let the sleazewars begin. Why look for real-world examples when we can invent them and have them now?
Her resume is impressive and she was appointed to the Federal Bench by George H.W. Bush, but any Obama appointee will be treated as an opportunity for the reactionary turkey coop to air the same old "farleftliberal" gobble.
Whether she is indeed a far left Liberal, whatever that means, or a moderate Liberal, if you can sum up anyone that easily: even if she is "carrying water" for the administration, if you'll pardon their cliche', she isn't likely to be carrying all those sacks of reeking fascist shit that have been piling up in the halls of justice during the Republican Dark Ages and that, to me, means far more than gender, ethnicity or any label the pinhead Republicans can pin on her.
This Just In!
Fox has announced their verdict. Sonya Sotomayor is the “most liberal” of any of his candidates and was chosen to “appease the far left.”
Still no word on why the "most Liberal Senator in American History" has yet to prove he isn't a conservative, but hey - it's Fox, how wrong can they be?
Do these people think about the things they say or are they just so stuck in 24/7 propaganda-mode that they don't pay any attention?
ReplyDeleteI suspect the latter, but you would think they would have to think about things once in awhile.
In any case, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice is exciting.
Why bother to think, or be consistent? Attack, attack, attack works fine because they're howling to themselves to remind themselves they're werewolves and not just the lapdogs they are. I would love to see at least one of them admit that needing to appease the liberals means you're not a liberal, but it's not going to happen any more than they're going to admit "hey we fucked up the country."
ReplyDeleteThis tastes more like religious ritual, some sort of catechism of anger, something to be recited and repeated, at the Church of Hate.
I think any swiftboat campaign against O's pick for justice will go down in a fusillade of snickering. I've noticed that there's a tipping point in public discourse and attitude – it's not easy to fix the moment or to tell exactly what it was that made the shift happen – but it seems to have happened with regard to the right's authoritarianism and fear-inducing patter. The right has reduced itself to a caricature (the dominant elements of which are hysteria, xenophobia and serial dishonesty about everything under the sun), and nothing its proponents say is likely to be taken seriously for some time. Quite the reverse – which is a problem, I suppose, since if they ever say anything that makes sense about some important matter, everyone will be too busy snickering to notice. I mean, a two-or-more-party system has its virtues ….
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right. I tend to gauge the extent of the insanity by its amplitude and I suppose that's just what they want me to do.
ReplyDeleteI've looked up Judge Sotomayer's decisions and she strikes me as quite the moderate and not at all the sort of judge who legislates from the bench.
Again, I hope you're right and all the "liberal - liberal" crying will undo them.
Rush says he hopes she fails. I'm shocked!
ReplyDeleteAll the cable news networks have a financial interest in making Mr. Obama's Supreme Court justice choice an ongoing drama for the entire summer.
ReplyDeleteI predict that she'll be approved and be on the Court in the fall, despite the circus that will inevitably be played out by the MSM.
She's not at all controversial, but it is in the MSM's best interest to make her so.
I read somewhere that some on the radical right are comparing her to Harriet Miers. Really. The jokes just keep writing themselves.
Here is Miers' education and experience vs. Sotomayor's:
Miers entered Southern Methodist University intending to become a teacher. The economic plight of her family was so dire that she almost dropped out in her freshman year, but she was able to find part-time work that put her through college. Then her father had a debilitating stroke. When a lawyer helped organize her family's financial situation, Miers was inspired to enter law school. Miers graduated from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics (1967) and from its Law School with a Juris Doctor degree (1970).
After graduating from law school, from 1970 to 1972, Miers was a law clerk for the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Joe E. Estes. She was admitted to the bar in Texas 1970 and has not been admitted to the Washington DC bar.
In 1979, after she made partner in her law firm, she became an evangelical Christian after having had a series of long discussions with Nathan Hecht, her close friend and colleague at the firm.
Sotomayor:
Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. She earned her A.B. from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1976. Sotomayor obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Sotomayor then served as an Assistant District Attorney under prominent New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
Federal judicial service
Considered a political centrist by the American Bar Association Journal and others, Sotomayor was nominated on November 27, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by John M. Walker, Jr. She became the youngest judge in the Southern District and the first Hispanic federal judge anywhere in New York State.
Confirmation as Court of Appeals Judge:
On June 25, 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the seat she now holds, which was vacated by J. Daniel Mahoney. Her nomination was approved overwhelmingly by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but became "embroiled in the sometimes tortured judicial politics of the Senate," as some Republicans said they did not want to consider the nomination because elevating Sotomayor to the Appeals Court would enhance her prospects of being appointed to the Supreme Court.
Wow -- thanks for all the information. I'm too lazy to have done all that work myself.
ReplyDeleteYes, Rush is in full outrage mode -- calling her a "racist" and worse: a "reverse racist" which is harder to refute since it means absolutely nothing.
I'm not quite so sure this rage will be laughed off by the public. I think we have a long way to go before we get over these people and their madness.
Rush's fans will soak up whatever nonsensical diatribe he throws at them.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't think reasonable Americans pay much attention to him. And that's the current dilemma for Republicans - if they play to their base, which is clearly what they're doing, they will continue to lose the middle and, consequently, political power for ages to come. The first semi-charismatic Republican to denounce Rush is the guy or girl (not Sarah Palin) to watch. That person can lead the GOP and will be a potential prez candidate.
Of course there's an excellent chance this person won't come along; this person may not exist.