DeMint takes lead in criticizing high court pick

Miami Herald ^ | 5/26/09 | James Rosen

[pissant]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint, was more critical than his Republican colleagues Tuesday about President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

While most Republicans took a cautious approach, DeMint, of South Carolina, sounded warnings about Sotomayor's record and philosophy as a federal district and appellate judge from New York.

"Some of her writings seem to raise serious questions about her approach to the Constitution and the role of the federal judiciary, but I will withhold judgment about her nomination until she has the opportunity to fully present her views before the Senate," DeMint said.

[pissant]

One of the few with a spine, I might add.

Hunter/DeMint 2012.

[gov_bean_ counter]

This one should be DOA in committee. If the Pubbies can't unite to turn back this assault on the Constitution then they are truly dead as a party and this country's days as a Republic are numbered.

[the invisib1e hand]

yawn. she’s teflon — protected species. even tax evasion won’t stop her.

[Gargantua]

"If the Pubbies can't unite to turn back this assault on the Constitution then they are truly dead as a party and this country's days as a Republic are numbered."

No.

In point of fact, at least for the time being our days as a Constitutional Republic are already over.

It remains true, however, that our Founding Documents provide that, if any branch of our government ever exceeds its Constitutionally limited authority and ceases to be lawfully of, for and by the people, we the people have both the duty and the unwavering obligation to remove it and restore a Constitutional one again.

This in-over-his-head rent-a-meat-puppet in the White House swore an oath to uphold and defend our Constitution even as he paid a team of lawyers to prevent him having to abide by it.

The Constitution does not grant to the president the authority to fire CEO's of corporations, take over huge companies, dictate what cars can be built, take over the country's health-care or own and run the banks.

Unless and until we remove this larcenous, traitorous, pathalogically-deceitful usurper from the White House, we are no longer a Constitutional Republic. We're a Banana Republic at best.

Them's just the facts, amigo.

;-/

[KoRn]

"This one should be DOA in committee"

I totally agree, but where are those votes against her going to come from on the committee? Just imagine the hell that would have been raised if Bush(or any republican) would have appointed someone as conservative as this woman is liberal. I think this woman is beyond being just a liberal. She gives off a certain hostile, vibe that borders on anger. She certainly has an axe to grind. I believe she's going to make Ginsburg look like a moderate. /scary

[Names Ash Housewares]

This will be a good test to see who is trustable and who is not.
There should be no mistaking RINOs for republicans anymore.

[exist]

Less Cornyns, more Demints.

[pissant]

amen

[Eagles6]

I need to get together a list of congressmen like Demint and Inhofe that I can contact en mass to voice my concerns. I am in PA with sphincter and casey as my senators and murtha my rep. I won’t waste my energy contacting them anymore.

[americanophile]

I love DeMint.