Favorable Narrative Forming for Republicans on Sotoymayor

The Provocateur ^ | 05/31/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Here's a quick quiz. After the first two days or say following her nomination, have you heard even one political discussion anywhere about Judge Sotomayor that didn't include an allusion to her controversial comments at Berkeley? I know I haven't. Now, I am here to say that this is totally unfair. No one should be defined by one comment no matter how inflammatory. It's also exactly the narrative that Republicans want as they move forward with the nomination.

It gets even better than that for Republicans. What's the one case most often mentioned when discussing the nomination of Judge Sotomayor? Of course, it's the Ricci case in which she ruled against seventeen white firefighters, including Mr. Ricci a dislexic, who had done well enough on a test to get a promotion but were denied

[GeronL]

despite Steele, Crist, Cornyn, Noonan et al, this might be a blow to Obama in the end. It remains to be seen, I still think she is close to being a lock on the seat though

[Brilliant]

The thing that is giving the GOP a head of steam is the fact that the media has come to her rescue. Whenever the media backs up a Dem nominee, you know that the story the Dems are selling has got to be a lie.

[mamelukesabre]

Close??

Close??

Close as in what? A handgrenade that drops a foot away from it’s target? The GOP doens’t even have the filibuster as an option, as far as I know. So how is this broad only close?

[Huskrrrr]

Obama is steadily losing political capitol. Reminds me of Bill Clinton's ‘gays in the military’ fiasco.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s too late - Sessions have already bit the pillow among other Senate Republicans. Gotta be moderate and bipartisan you know, plus we need them future Hispanic voters who’ll end up voting for the Dems anyway.

[libstripper]

The extraordinary thing is the "empathy and compassion" issue. Sotomayor has overcome a serious disability, type I diabetes, that's plagued her for her entire life. As a "compassionate" Latina with true "empathy" for the suffering and heroic striving of others with severe handicaps who overcome them, she should have particularly identified with Ricci, across gender and ethnic barriers as someone who has struggled and prevailed as she has. Instead, purely and illegally because of his race, this vile, unqualified woman figuratively spat on him by not even providing him the courtesy of a written opinion and dismissing his case out of hand. Indeed, this shows how the Usurper, Hussein Obama, a secret Mudslime, communist, anti-American feels about all real Americans (he isn't one) and this country.

[GeronL]

I mean she will get confirmed but if the GOP exposes her as a racist, leftist activist it could hurt the Democrats and Obama electorally

[potlatch]

Another Sotomayor case regarding  free speech;

 

[dixiechick2000]

I love that graphic!

Sonia and Barry...two peas in a pod.

[potlatch]

Thanks DC. Flipping a coin may not be her method but it's hard to depict ‘flips in the brain’, lol.

[joydocsusie]

Yes, conservatives in the Senate CAN stop the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Contrary to what you may be hearing from the liberal media, stopping this nomination does not have to be a “long shot.” It would only take a handful of Republicans who have the courage and the backbone to do the right thing.

But first, let’s make one thing clear. Obama could have chosen any number of liberals to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the High Court. He could have chosen someone who, like Justice Souter, was simply left-of-center... a garden variety liberal... but he didn’t.

Obama selected Judge Sotomayor because she’s an extreme leftist... because he knows she will likely allow her liberal political biases to affect her decision making on the Court… because he knows she’s already disposed to “legislate” a leftist agenda from the bench.

It Will Only Take Seven Republican Senators to Prevent Judicial Activism on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Seven Republicans in the Senate — if they have the guts to do the right thing — can stop the Sotomayor confirmation dead in its tracks.

Senate Judiciary Committee Rule IV states, “... debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority.” [Emphasis Mine]

That means if the seven senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Jeff Sessions, Orrin Hatch, Charles Grassley, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn and Tom Coburn) stand together, they can prevent Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation from being rammed though the Senate by the liberal majority.

If you believe the liberal media, Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation is a done deal.

But nothing could be further from the truth. The confirmation needs at least one Republican vote to advance out of the Judiciary Committee.

Keep that simple point in mind as you watch these senators jockey and maneuver and pontificate and tell you that stopping this nomination is a “long shot.”

You’ve already heard statements from Members of the Senate that they want to be “fair.” And, the process should be. But in total and complete “fairness,” there are already plenty of reasons why Judge Sotomayor should give us all pause.

And, while we are on the subject of “fairness,” were liberals like Ted Kennedy and Patrick Leahy “fair” when it came to Judge Robert Bork or Justice Clarence Thomas? What about Miguel Estrada, whose confirmation was denied a fair up-or-down vote because “he is Latino?” Was that fair?

Of course not.

[PhilDragoo]