What’s ‘Latina’ Got to do With It?
by James Hudnall
When you favor someone because of their race over others who are equally or more qualified, that’s racism. Except in America where an old policy that was supposed to help people in an age of real separatism is still on the books and enforced.
The appointment of judge Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama to the Supreme Court is a classic example of how absurd affirmative action has become. And she unwittingly said it all in the following statement:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
First of all, that is a foolish statement. Wise people don’t call themselves wise. And anyone who thinks their ethnicity (Latinos aren’t a race) or race makes them somehow more wise is not very smart. There are clueless people of every race. Life experience only imbues wisdom if you actually learn something from it. A lot of people don’t.
But in the Obama administration appointing someone based on their “story” and identity politics trumps qualifications. Martin Luther King must be rolling in his grave, because this goes against everything he preached.
Besides, when you have a black president appointing a Latina judge for politically correct reasons so that white politicians will be afraid to dissent, affirmative action has gone way past being dated.
It was a good idea when it started, as a temporary measure. But that was over 40 years ago. And times have changed. It’s not really needed anymore, but it’s widely abused. Those who use political correctness as a bludgeon for their agenda will try to keep it going forever.
Identity politics is racist, sexist, tribalist, classist nonsense. If our society is to ever truly grow up, we need to kill it off with extreme prejudice.
It should end. Bureaucrats never like to give up power to abuse the public for bogus ends. So it won’t go without a fight. But it must.
When you favor one race, religion or ethnic group over another it’s not only un-American, it’s bigotry. We can’t have an equal society until we get rid of political correctness and affirmative action.
People should be judged on their merits and not on their “story.” Stories are for fiction and con games.
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we are not sure what is the most disturbing thing about Sotomayor's appointment- whether it is her lack of judicial temprament, racial and gender politics, or- Obama could have given us FAR worse… we have been
warned that the next one could be 'even more radical'.
Still think Obama is a 'centrist'?
Obama is nothing more than a small globular of star stuff, that is running down the leg of infinity, to land on the urinal floor of the Cosmos.
-Carl Sagan
When we have a Female Speaker of the house and a Black President, who is appointing a Latina female to the Supreme Court, and said Black President won the primary against a female, who is now the secretary of State. WHY? do we still have affirmative action laws?
Personally, I was hoping Obama would nominate the first openly gay, transgendered Swedish midget justice to the Supreme Court. I guess that even with all the progress we've made on civil rights, we still have a long way to go.
What's interesting regarding her quote is I don't see how that applies to the firefighters case. Wouldn't the fact that she isn't white make it impossible to see the case from their side?
I know, I know, naive little ol' me.
I'm a (shockingly) white 23 year old male, I'm just so tired of being the "bad" guy.
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
I offer a quote of better wisdom from a more wise source. Romans 1:22, "Professing to be wise, they became fools"
It’s a despicable remark and blatantly racist. If she wants to go down this road then an American white male would understand what is to be an American far better than someone like this immigrant airhead; Sotomayor’s must be under the impression she’s being nominated for Venezuela’s court.
I would also remind this dimwit and jug-eared dolt for a president that justice is blind. We are all equal under the law which is why the Roman goddess of justice with a sword in one hand and scales in the other is blindfolded.
Somebody better get under the bus and save the Constitution now !
Chrysler was the first shot, as they shredded due process and bankruptcy law.
Now they're about to change the rules on basic legal opinion.
Tick tock tick tock, how many of your heretofore enjoyed freedoms are about to be "redefined" for the good of other people in the society. People that have long relied on government to help them in every aspect of their life.
here's a newsflash about this "immigrant airhead": Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America and its residents are U.S. citizens.
I think she's a terrible choice because of her policies, not her U.S. origin. My 4th grader know U.S. geography – you should borrow his books.
And BUSH is the one who obliterated our Freedoms? Yeah, uh-huh….right.
Anybody still buying that!??
This is an utterly unconscionable, though predictable, pick. Not only is Sotomayor the worst kind of judicial activist, she is also a blatant racist and her decisions – not just her words – betray that: She values racial-grievance outcomes over the law. This is one reason that her decisions are so often reversed on appeal.
The more I read about her, the worse she gets. She's been called, "a bully on the bench," "unintelligent," "blatantly biased," and many more such things by people who have worked with her, including some of her fellow liberals.
Should Sotomayor be confirmed, she'll be known as, "The Affirmative Action Justice," but with a dual meaning, if you catch my drift.
Lets see she is racist, has had 60% of her decisions overturned, several where the court unanimously ruled that her logic was flawed, has recently written a one paragraph decision (that should not stand) and overall lacks the intellect to be a Justice. Not to mention that apparently much like our pResident she has not read the Constitution, since she likes to make policy from the bench thus usurping the rights of the Legislative and Executive branches. Latina or not she should not be approved.
Justice Sonia “Taney” Sotomayor
Won't be the first bigot on the Court
She'll be Obama's Magical Latina!
No perhaps not but she is also not the first "Hispanic" unless of course you want to ignore Cardozo……..
"Personally, I was hoping Obama would nominate the first openly gay, transgendered Swedish midget justice to the Supreme Court."
And snub all closeted, bi-curious asian hermaphrodites? Perish the thought!
Based on her comments that are being played across the airwaves, Sotomayor doesn't sound so "wise" either.
Point of fact, the only openly gay, transgendered Swedish midget justice we have in the Federal system is weak on Roe v. Wade.
Not that that's a litmus test or anything…
Not to nit-pick, but…Puerto Rico is a U.S. commonwealth possession, not a State in the Union. That is an important distinction. Besides, "Hispanics" did not form the United States; English settlers did (Yeah, I know…Scots-Irish settlers too). Her culture is quite foreign to ours. We should have let go of Puerto Rico by now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_rico
Just an idle thought…American foreign policy has never been particularly cohesive or well thought out, but why did we give back Cuba and the Philipines and keep Puerto Rico?
None of this really matters.
5 to 4 is still 5 to 4.
what if Justice Roberts had said:
“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.”
The job of a Supreme Court Justice is to see that the law is applied correctly and consistently, make sure it is based in the Constitution and correlates to the intentions of the Founders, the latter applying only in certain situations where the exact wording of the Constitution can leave uncertainty. All but the very last bit can be done by a computer, such programs are already being deployed on lower levels for guidance and as a check against bias, someday computers may understand the intricacies of language sufficiently that all of it may be automated with human judges merely used for supervision. Thus the minority status of a Justice should have no weight whatsoever.
Others are questioning her appointment, see this New Republic article. Looks like the opposition may come from both sides.
America did not vote for a centrist, we voted for a liberal. Conservatives made the election a referendum on liberalism and you lost.
…and by America you mean yourself and your socialist cronies.
i agree with you 100%. Let's get rid of affirmative action and political correctness and while we're at it let's make new laws that do not allow supreme court to make new laws. That's the preview of the people. Wait, we do not have to make new laws to do that. That's already the law! The robe does not give you any more power than is dictated by the law. It does not give you the power to make the law. I know it's confusing to you libs but think about it.
auntie to the defense- hmmm… he sure sounded like a centrist during the election cycle- oh, yeah- you lefties knew he was 'misleading' the public, and that he had the requisite marxist tendencies.
Shame you all have to lie to win an election. Wonder what the Blue Dog Dems will do in 2010.
Any bets?
One of the White House spokescreeps yesterday said she was "more qualified than all the justices serving on the Supreme Court right now". Democrat spin doctors are so repulsive, I tell you.
It's not that affirmative action as an idea is wrong. It's that it should be income based, not race based. It started out ok as a assist to those held back, but years ago, it should have changed from racial preferences to income based. That way it would be acceptable to all, except the wealthy. And it would be fair to all.
"What's Latina got to do with it?"
How tone deaf can you manage to be?
I will tell you what it has to do with it. Republican's are gonna take it in the hinee on this one. Either they roll over and accept a liberal activist Supreme Court nominee…OR they risk offending the Latinos and losing the tenuous grasp they have on that voter block.
Is that wrong? Well… lets just say it just "is".
(It just "is" a well played political move by the "O-bomb" heh heh heh.)
to keep conservatives out of the game…white, black. latino, whatever. Double standards R Us
from amessage board just today…Silence is rarely misquoted", or "better to be thought a fool than open your mouth a prove it beyond all doubt"…
The MSM and Liberal power whores can't help themselves…
The Obamination is blind alright, but not when it comes to their version of social justice. The whole purpose is to radicalize SCOTUS and bring down Western culture these people hate so much.
Let's think at what you just said. How can it be fair to all? Somewhere opportunity: better jobs, a business, better education, public positions of power and influence are taken from more qualified individuals and given by definition to a less qualified individual, by threat of real political force.
How can this be fair to all? Is Discrimination acceptable just because political thugs buy votes from one group at the epense of another? Is holding back someone better qualified NOW less a grievious wrong than holding someone down in the past…isn't that is why justice is supposed to be blind?
Who's we Jackass? I didn't vote for that fool!
Since, in all probability, Sotomayor has spent her entire adult life in liberal confines (NYC, Yale, trial lawyers), I can see why she thinks white males are insipid. I have the same opinion of liberal white males.
If she's as wise as she believes herself to be, why doesn't she know that saying Latina woman is redundant?
Worst SCOTUS nominee ever.
AGAIN, Barack Obama only won by about seven million votes. Hardly a full mandate.
I think she's clearly not a great judge and I doubt that Obama really wants her on the bench. So why pick her? Because I think he expects her to be shot down, and here's why I think he believes that he will benefit him:
1. Obama knew that the Republicans would oppose his nominee, whoever it was. By picking Sotomayor, he baits them with her ethnicity and gender. If the Republicans jump on her in the wrong way, he can run to the Hispanic and female "communities" and accuse the Republicans of being racist/ethnicist and sexist.
2. If conversative Democrats join the Repubs in blocking her, he gives his own left flank ammunition to use against them in the next primary. Remember, they are the ones stopping his gun, tax, and environmental schemes.
3. By picking her, he placated both female and Hispanic pressure groups. IF she now gets knocked down, those groups will be motivated to turn out in the next election.
4. Moreover, if she gets defeated, Obama wins a virtual free hand in who he gets to appoint next. He can thus pick someone to his liking without having to worry about his own pressure groups. Or, he can make other pressure groups happy — how about selecting a black lesbian next?
All told, it's a win-win for him, unless the Republicans do this right.
From here:
…
A new, expansive Pew Research Center survey that contained those details also found that the nation's values haven't fundamentally changed. The country hasn't become more ideologically liberal or conservative despite sweeping Democratic victories at all levels of government last fall and shrinking GOP ranks.
Broadly, the findings indicate that it's politically dangerous for the new president and his fellow Democrats who control Congress to move too far to the left on domestic and foreign issues, lest they turn off middle-of-the-road voters whose support was critical in 2008 and will be important in upcoming elections.
The results also suggest that the public recently has rejected the GOP for poor performance, not because it disagrees with the party's positions on key issues.
…
It's an interesting read for an AP piece. While saying nothing great about the Republicans, the basic point to be taken from it is Americans are less interested in party affiliation as opposed to voting on the issues that concern them. Old style party politics, as represented by the famed Chicago Democratic political machine, is out of favor.
Please note how the article loudly mentions that the Democrats will lose if they stray from the center and press hard for a liberal agenda. Democrats read polls, and have been quiet about further reforms for what is politically a very long time now.
The better analysis, based on the contemporaneous news reports and polls, is voters choose to believe Candidate Obama simply was not as liberal as he was portrayed to be by conservatives. Now Number 44 has established a record as President, and 2012, even 2010, approaches.
ok, we'll bite. What is the right move?
Yet another elitest snob raises their ugly ism to bludgeon us with thuggish affrontery. About what I expected.
I think we all are tired of being the "bad" guy… If a person is Anglo-Saxon or Caucasian, Conservative and/or Christian you are automatically evil and the bane of America's existance… :/
=== here's a newsflash about this "immigrant airhead": Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America and its residents are U.S. citizens.===
Sonja answered this; Puerto Rico is as American as Guam.
We can't even pick the best qualified unless color or gender is a qualifier because the best qualified just might be a white male… How much more racist and sexist can a person get?
Going by this New Republic article, maybe just a perfunctory review then confirming her. If Number 44 is expecting her to be shot down, and both sides have ammunition, giving him this "victory" would be giving a defeat.
Oh man, I wish I had been there… I would have been laughing in their fugly faces…. I am sorry but I am pretty sure Stevens takes that cake…. Libtards.
If they shoot her down, he can put up Wanda Sykes. Now that would be some choice. His arrogance continues to feed the madness. Where is our messiah to deliver us from these transgressions?
Sotomayer is a racist. She's also not very smart. BUT she's smart enough to play the race card and look where it got her.
Obama is a racist. He's also not very smart. BUT he's smart enough to play the race card and look where it got him.
Water seeks its own level. And folks, as of last November 5th, this nation is now officially in the sewer. Next November, we either climb out of it – or put up with more sewer rats like Sotomayer.
For whatever reason, how can you decry racism and support the nomination of a racist judge, for political ends? Stacking the court is one thing. I'll be first one to admit that Bush did that. Your scenario is the epitome of liberal hypocricy. Pandering to a specific racial segment (for votes) is nuanced, cool and sophisticated while, ensuring solid juristic competence is knuckle dragging neanderthal, huh?
Sorry, you have a whole lifetime ahead to be looked at as the cause of anything anybody doesn't like. Scapegoats and bogeymen are always needed, and you match the description.
BAM!
Sotomayor obviously believes that her being a latina gives her more clairvoyance into the law than a white male. What she forgets, is that white males comprise the majority in congress, both democrat and republican. She will be a useful idiot to the likes of Kennedy, Byrd, Leahy, Schumer, Harkin and she's begun by insulting them already. It's not being a latina that is offensive, it's her blatant racism.
IDIOT ALERT…IDIOT ALERT….IDIOT ALERT…..PANDERING TO LULAC AND ACORN…..TRYING TO KEEP DEMOCRAT VOTES TO STAY IN POWER……PUT IDIOTS ON THE SC AND TELL THE UNWASHED THAT THEY ARE MORE "SYMPATHETIC" TO THE DOWNTRODDEN……READ "WILL NOT PROSECUTE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THOSE THAT HIRE AND PROTECT THEM". WHAT A BUNCH OF STUPID DEMOCRAT IDIOTS WE HAVE UNCOMVERED WITH THIS BIRACIAL EMPTY SUIT PRESIDENT AND HIS CROOKED CRONIES.
cool!
There would be riots across the country….when anglo-saxons become the minority in this country, I'm going to milk it for all that it's worth.
Sorry, didn't mean to be cryptic.
The right move is not to run out right now and scream that they're going to filibuster her. (1) They can't win that filibuster, so it's an empty threat, (2) it will energize many to defend her, and (3) it will kick the RINOs into high gear — they love fighting their own party.
Instead, the Republicans need to methodically put her views and the consequences of her views to the public. Let the public get worked up. They will flood Capital Hill with angry calls and letters.
As the pressure rises, turn Obama's cynicism back on him. Go to the Hispanic/female communities and tell them how cynical Obama has acted in appointing someone that he thought would never survive the nomination process just to placate them.
(continued)
Then you start hinting at a filibuster, after the public is on your side. That's when the democrats will fold and withdraw her nomination, embarassing Obama and creating a schism between Obama and Hispanic/female groups.
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I wrote about this in more detail over the last couple days.
First off, she is not the first "hispanic" that was Cardozo, second of all lets take a look at her record in 60% of her rulings were overturned at least one that was upheld the entire court questioned her logic and do you really think that the hispanic community is that stupid?
You assume she was picked for her race and she's the racist?
I sure hope she's gay, too.
At this point I could make a case that CgntvDssdnt is the kinder, gentler voice of antifascist. There are many similarities and some overlap. Although, noticing that What? and antifascist are the same was much easier, they read in the same voice, What? is merely more frenetic. This post above sounds remarkably close to antifascist, note the "take it in the hinee" part.
Affirmative Action is based on discriminating against Straight White Men in favor of Gays, Women, and non-Whites. It has massive support … from White Women. Fox News conservative legal analyst Megan Kelly defended Sotomayor's arguments about "Wise Latina Woman" and also Ricci's "Disparate Impact" … and this is no accident. There is a reason Republicans are AFRAID to criticize Affirmative Action. White Women support it overwhelmingly.
Particularly now that most employment is government or government directed (GM/Chrysler/Banks, Green stuff, etc.) White Women can only "win" in employment, earnings, and power if White Men lose. Thus, Affirmative Action who's primary beneficiaries are White Women. [White Women dominate government employment, check your local Library or government office, the people you won't see is Straight White Men.] There are only so many employment slots and so much money and so much promotions. It's why Obama chose Sotomayor in the first place.
From what I've been reading, she's a divorced childless Catholic, so it seems unlikely. However, as still another Catholic on the Supreme Court she may be willing to overturn Roe v Wade.
Funny how Hussein ran as a Conservative: tax cuts, attacking AQ in Pakistan, cut wasteful spending, etc.
You see stupid, you bedwetting liberal eunuchs need to hide what you truly believe from the American people otherwise you’d get slaughtered in an election. Do you ever see an intellectually honest liberal miscreant campaigning on what their true motives are like abortion on demand, class warfare, raising taxes, limiting freedom and free speech, suppressing economic development, subverting the Constitution, etc? Of course not because America is center-right. Unfortunately many Americans are just not that bright and are bamboozled by you lying vermin.
I know he's the guy y'all really want, but I'm sorry to inform you that Roger B. Taney has been dead for 155 years.
Her race is ethnically white. Latinos aren't a race. There are all races (including Asian) represented in Latin America, just like in North America. But she obviously thinks her identity politics makes her "more wise" which is jingoistic.
Dummy, Hussein and the other liberal sycophants are continually mentioning that she's a latina. Notice how they don't really mention her decisions since most of them were shockingly inept and 6 out of 10 were overturned.
Did you not read her racist comment about white males, or in your twisted liberal world is it ok to slander white heterosexual males?
By the way dummy, was Hussein elected president by the lobotomized 52% of Americans because of the content of his character and accomplishments or was it because he's black? We know the answer; don't insult our intelligence with one of your vapid liberal responses.
Are you drunk or stoned?
Too involved, too contrived, too much subtlety. Your opposition specializes in the politics of division. You cannot appear to be negative on minority status, few Americans believe neutrality is possible. By the accounts I'm reading, she'll be a nightmare of a Justice who'll be readily discredited if she tries to stick out, and will be open to persuasion to go with the majority. Show you're being positive on minority status, that it's not an issue, let in this nominee that Number 44 is obviously expecting to be shot down, collect the good PR and save it for upcoming battles.
We are running out of language that is capable of describing these things. If Judge Sotomayor actually made this statement then this is hubris on a very large scale. How in love with oneself does a person have to be to announce to the world that they are "wise" and that their wisdom is based on a set of life experiences that are unique to themselves? If the judge were simply someone you might meet socially then it could be written off as simple pomposity. In a future Associate Justice such an attitude is deeply disturbing. The good judge may be setting herself up as that favorite of the media, the self-proclaimed "Conscience of the Court." It's a great gig that allows you to ignore constitutional principals while receiving the plaudits of the Washington illuminati. (Justice Brennan had it down to a science.) Ooops Sorrry…I shouldn't say anything like that. It might be taken as "mean spirited."
I don't know about you but having a Latina judge on the SC just makes me proud to be an American.
American, not a white American, not a Irish American, just an American.
Then again, I am proud to have Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito on the court also.
I am just an easy American.
I think it is fair to say that she was picked for her race and gender. She may or may not be quailifed and she may or may not be a racist. Clearly, she stated that her being a Latina would make her a better judge than some guy.
Here words, not mine.
There´s help. You, too, can become a minority! Pretend to be gay. Acquire a popular psychological condition or phobia. Claim to be part native American (it worked for Ward Churchill, at least for a while). Hell, just be a victim of something.
Very Glib. Whatever happened to the concept of the "Jacksonian Democrat" anyway?
It's funny but I don' t recall him running as a liberal. He ran from the label and anyone who used it was attacked by the lapdogs in the media. The fact is that neither candidate was conservative so it's impossible to claim it was a victory for liberalism. Let's see how he fares if the GOP ever decides to return to conservatism and runs a conservative candidate against the big O.
I hate to misquote Reagan but his quote that "I didn't leave the ___ party, it left me" is equally applicable to the GOP in the last two election cycles. Let Obama do his best, the next election will be a referendum on his policies and appointments – the first nominee appears to be just as we should expect. The man still hasn't stopped campaigning.
They've had elections where they could opt for independence or statehood and so far they've declined both options. This way they have all the benefits of US citizenship but they don't pay federal income taxes.
I am not nearly as concerned by her comments, in and of themselves (in their minds, I'd guess, most judges actually believe that, for one reason or another, they are better suited to be judges than many others.) I find it more disturbing that Judge Sotomayor would have the lack of restraint, temperament and simple common sense to actually give voice to her grandly delusional feelings at a public forum. Incredible.
I am sure she'll be confirmed — but I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the meeting room at the Supreme Court when Sotomayor, Roberts and Scalia get going.
My guess is that she'll turn out to be the Clarence Thomas of the left. She'll be a reliable liberal vote (as Thomas is a reliable conservative vote) — though, like Thomas, not much else. She'll vote on ideological grounds, never write any major opinions (as her opinions to this point show that she's really not much of a giant of legal thought), and will occasionally write a dissent that no one else will join.
…Sotomayor ruled against the firefighters in a perfunctory unpublished opinion. This provoked Judge Jose Cabranes, a fellow Clinton appointee, to object to the panel's opinion that contained "no reference whatsoever to the constitutional issues at the core of this case."
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6...
http://www.AlistZ.net
kadaka, it's not involved or subtle at all — it's basically the same thing as preparing an effective cross examination.
And you can't just give her a pass as you are suggesting. If her views are not highlighted now — in other words, if she's not "made damaged goods" — then she will disappear onto the court unless she does something monumentally insane.
The reason that guys like Scalia and Thomas draw such attention, whereas other Justices who vote with them routinely don't, has nothing to do with their views. It has everything to do with the perception of extremism that was created at the time of their nominations. The Republicans need to do the same thing to Sotomayor now the "nightmare" that you're talking about will go virtually unnoticed.
The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor,… was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," as … clerk for another judge put it. "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue." (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, "Will you please stop talking and let them talk?")
Jeffre Roson
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6...
http://www.AlistZ.net
"I know the word on the street is that she's not the brainiest of people"… said one former clerk ""She's a fine Second Circuit judge–maybe not the smartest ever, but how often are Supreme Court nominees the smartest ever?"
Jeffrey Rosen
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6...
http://www.Alistz.net
Many white males didnt pay their taxes…I wonder if shes been well vetted????
I'm fine with having a black president, but not a crypto-fascist fool like this one. I'm fine with having a Latino woman in the Supreme Court, not an extremeist jingoistic leftist.
Sotomayor's entry in the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary,Here it is:
Sotomayor can be tough on lawyers, according to those interviewed. "She is a terror on the bench." "She is very outspoken." "She can be difficult." "She is temperamental and excitable. She seems angry." "She is overly aggressive–not very judicial. She does not have a very good temperament." "She abuses lawyers." "She really lacks judicial temperament. She behaves in an out of control manner. She makes inappropriate outbursts." "She is nasty to lawyers. She doesn't understand their role in the system–as adversaries who have to argue one side or the other. She will attack lawyers for making an argument she does not like."
http://www.AlistZ.net
Whiskey, the more I listen to Megyn Kelly, the less I think she is a conservative…as a white woman, I oppose AA, as do the white women I know; too many of us know people hurt by the program, and we are confident in our abilities to excel without it.
I think he expects her to be shot down
I think conservatives need to stop buying into the liberal mythology that Obama is that smart. They keep telling us that but, he has just been as completely leftist as his senate voting record.
1.2 trillion Fed M2 money supply increase + 3 Trillion in deficit in the next two years. 4 TRILLION in funny money to stimulate the economy!
Throw out the bankruptcy laws and mandate a Union takeover of the auto industry.
Pick the most left-wind choice on your Supreme Court List.
There is no master plan here. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever.” George Orwell
http://www.alistz.net
Personally, I don't care where she's from. I don't hold being from New York against anybody. I do care about the politicizing of the SCOTUS, her judicial philosophy, her opinion of the Constitution, and whether or not she intends to legislate from the bench. Since the majority party has all the votes plus some that it needs to put her there, we can only hope for the best–whatever that is.
whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on there cowboy. I do not support the nomination of any racist judge. Is she really?
I take your statement "ensuring solid juristic competence" to mean that, IF you want to insure solid juristic competence" that is to mean that you don't additionally consider, or muddle your consideration, by also considering a person's entho whatever. Which is a long way to basically role out the "color blind" logic. I get it. I don't happen to agree.
As far as pandering, sure… I guess after 8 years of watching the dem's act like dumbos, its a great relief that they've learned some savvy from the right, whose basic existence is owed to pandering to a certain ethic group.
I know, I can't stand that Tom Tancredo, how he's always accusing people of being racist. What a thug!
well done. We agree completely- a zen-like approach is the key. Let her own comments delineate her positions, be respectful, and, as Maj Rogers once said 'keep your powder dry'…
'Red Sonia'… Ho!
evcellent posts. Keep up the good work…
and that ethnic group would be what?
auntie has a buddy… Cognitwit is a collection of people- most likely students living on Dad's credit cards…
the voices change from time to time as does the style. That's our take.
Thanks dcase. I couldn't resist the "Red Sonia" bit. . . it was there for the taking.
Great quote from Rogers too. Always choose your time of attack carefully.
I don't see Obama as smart or particularly good at politics, but this one didn't take a lot of brains to set up. This game has been played before many times.
The narcissistic SC candidate from the narcissistic Prez/
if you have to ask, then my response is: albino transgender mole people.
yes, we had to ask. And of course, you couldn't answer coherently…
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