Posted on 05/27/2009 6:49:42 AM PDT by bboop
We need a list with contact information of Congressmen who should be encouraged to 'Bork' Sotomayor. The polls make it seem like we all adore obama. Congressmen will probably be afraid to take this nomination on. We must encourage them to fight it tooth and nail. She might still win the nomination, but it must be at great expense.
Plus, a practice round, whether it is successful or not, will be good training for the National Health Care fight.
Anyone have a list ready? Who's on the Committee?
Right! I’ll call Kerry, Kennedy, and Neal today!
How? the numbers are not there. The Senate Dems had a majority when they “borked” Robert Bork.
Unless some unknown prior criminal or otherwise disqualifying matter is discovered (which seems unlikely as she's already faced two other previous confirmation hearings), it is a mathematical certainty that Sotomayer will be confirmed.
Sotomayor is a lightweight. She is also 55 this year. You think it would be better to stop her and have Obama appoint a younger leftist judge with some intellectual heft behind them?
I view Sotomayor as likely ineffective clashing with Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito, etc. Heck she might even end up as a left Souter. Maybe the RC church in her past will cause her to decide surprisingly in some cases when she no longer has ambitions.
What if all the GOP Senators on the Judiciary Committee vote to block?
They should make it as hard as possible to pass Sotomayor. She is an activist, racist, sexist, lightweight who thinks judges make policy.
Our country deserves better.
Clearly, there are many Republicans that think they need to be even more like the Democrats.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and this suggestion does indeed honor them.
I do not believe that conservatives should EVER stoop to ‘Borking’. Going through personal files, making false accusations of racisim and sexism and attempting to ruin a man’s reputation without cause is ‘Borking’.
There is more than enough substance to reject this woman based on poor performance and evidence of judicial activism. The dims won’t care, and even find those attributes make her more attractive to them and will seat her anyway.
We need to make a strong case against her, make her short-comings highly visible, and hold the dims responsible for seating an incompetent justice, but we do not need to resort to uncivil tactics to do it.
Do you want Kagan instead?
Stopping Sotomayer will require Republicans with backbone. Sad.
Sotomayor isn't the worst we could have got.
You do realize that we only have 40 Senators. That's not much to work with. We dodged a bullet. It could have been MUCH worse.
Do you SERIOUSLY think we are going to get a Scalia or Thomas out of the Kenyan?
Do you want to win or do you want to be right?
Exactly. We can squack all we want. The way Congress is currently construed, BHO will get pretty much whatever he wants. We don’t even have enough votes to mount a successful filibuster. Our energies must be focused on taking back Congress next year.
The GOP needs to tarnish her, but can’t stop her. She is not the worst of the possiblities but will suit their cause..silver lining..she is 55 a series diabetic and overweight..so she may not be on the court that long.
We will also get a chance to grade our GOP Senators on their votes and questions..
The only way she doesn’t get through is some type of financial or personal scandal, and she withdraws.
Nonsense.
We must “Bork” her so that we can get to Woods or Kagan, instead? They are coming with future choices and the real fight should be reserved for them.
If Obama wants to put up a justice with long-term health issues that worked for an organization in support of pregnancy (not abortion), then that is a tactical error on his part.
We should not let a second go by in which we don’t criticize her radical leftist views (as any of his nominees will hold), but at the end of the day, she should get the vote and be on the Court.
And THEN. THEN we should be thankful that he put demographics ahead of long-term ideology. He should have taken the Roberts and Alito example to the next level and nominated a fierce 30 yr. old to the Court. Instead, he nominated somebody that LOOKS in ill health. The next Republican President may well get to replace HER.
This game is going to be played differently in the near future. Expect future Justices to be nominated in their 20’s and 30’s. YES. That young, and unabashedly ideological. That’s where nominations will go in the near future (it’s the logical consequence of life-time appointments combined with ideological political weighting). That Obama didn’t recognize this and played by the “old rules” is tough toenails for him.
Prototypical Republican.
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