All this manuvering baloney.
“We want to oppose but we don’t want to piss off hispanics.”
Take a stand and forget the posturing.
The GOP is pointless beyond measure.
And they wonder why I tell them ‘no money’?
The last few calls I’ve gotten - from both the RNC & McCain - were pretty hostile. When someone wants you to donate, and they start shouting at you...it is a good sign they are hearing the same message over and over.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG THEM?! Since she has said she will judge in an UNCONSTITIONAL MANNER, it should be 40 NO VOTES??!!!!
Sotomayor is a done deal and long has been.
Not this Republican. You don't challenge this mental midget and identity politics baffoon from getting on the court, you will pay. And no 23 votes against is not a challenge.
The snippet of the article reflects EVERYTHING wrong with this country today.
At Sonia Sotomayor hearing, Republicans are surprisingly tough
Politico | July 13, 2009 | Josh Gerstein
Posted on 07/13/2009 11:54:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2291649/posts
Is this for real??? Now 20 NO votes is a victory??? WTF is going on when losing by a landslide vote is considered a victory. We are so screwed by these idiots it’s not even funny anymore.
Note to GOP: VOTE AGAINST SOTOMAYOR.
Since when does the GOP or any Republican for that matter care about the Hispanic voter. We lost the Hispanic block this past election and don’t seem to care.
How is voting against Sotomayor’s nomination gonna seem anymore “uncaring” to the Hispanic population than the GOP already does. Honestly.
It’s absolutely amazing anyone would vote for this racist to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
What a complete joke.
Obama will win this one. She will be confirmed.
Forget it and move on to the battles where we really need to focus our energies . . . defeating Obamacare and Cap & Trade. Let’s not get distracted over something that is inevitable.
And we are supposed to take comfort in 20 “No” votes and continue funding the GOP? I don’t think so.
So is their intent to send a message? Or to show just how impotent the GOP is in the Senate? Because keeping only half your members in the fold is hardly something to crow about.
“Others said that if the Senate GOP were to split roughly in half, that would signal support to conservatives who oppose Judge Sotomayor without angering Hispanic voters with a wholesale dismissal of her nomination.”
Too much in that sentence that disturbs me. You don’t vote on a nomination based on who you piss off. You vote based upon your principles and convictions. Too much politics these days that has gotten us into the trouble we are in now. That is what is wrong with the GOP...they worry more about how they will be perceived than actually voting on their principles.
I’m almost through with the GOP for good.