Hear us ... roar...?
Posted on 05/29/2009 6:23:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Senate Democrats treat judicial nominations as if they are one of those old Aztec games called "tlachtli" in which (according to some experts) the losers are killed on the spot. The Senate Republican leadership instead usually begins a nomination war as if it is playing a spirited game of patty-cake, and ends up acting as if the game is "Old Maid."
On the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, this dynamic must change.
Already, Judge Sotomayor's unfitness for the high court is abundantly manifest. No non-ethnic white nominee, under any circumstances, could possibly be confirmed if she had uttered, in a formal speech, anything close to the converse of Sotomayor's statement that Latina judges by their very background and nature, including perhaps "physiological" differences, would be more likely to reach "correct" decisions than would a white male. Especially since it was not a mere throwaway line, but instead amply defended throughout her speech, the statement is so racist in nature that it is utterly disqualifying. Combine it with a whole adult lifetime spent in pursuit of such racialist (if not racist) aims -- approving blatant discrimination against white firefighters, opining that states have no right to bar imprisoned felons from voting if the prison populations are disproportionately non-white, and a whole host of other outrageous stances -- and the only conclusion is that all reasonable senators of both parties should oppose Sotomayor by every legitimate means.
The nomination is an abomination, and it must be stopped.
But how?
First, the Republican leadership needs to "man up." It matters not how firmly the GOP's ranking Judiciary Committee member, Alabama's Jeff Sessions, does his duty if Leader Mitch McConnell and his cohorts continue past records of showing backbones as firm as cooked spaghetti.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I think we should play a mind game.
Just let it get out that the Repubs have a sterling source assuring us that she WILL vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Then let the pro-choice groups have at it. Soto will have to come out publicly and assure them she is pro-choice, but I don’t think she will. The pro-choice groups will demand another candidate.
He will NEVER put up anything but an activist. Elections have consequences.
Hey McCain, can we be afraid of an Obama presidency yet?
She is bad enough it’s worth going down in flames if we lose.
I’m hopeful the Blue Dog Democrats will be as disgusted as every Republican should be.
If the Senate Republicans rubber stamp this nomination there will be only one word for them. COWARDS
This is such a well-written and thoughtful article and for sure every word is true.
I sometimes go to sleep and hope I dream of having a loyal opposition party; that I should enjoy the fuzzy feeling of knowing that somebody, that somebodies, that I helped elect, are on my side, carrying my torch, putting my arguments up front for proper public cogitation.
We all know the pubs aren’t up to it. It will take years to throw those lackluster bunch of suntanned, fingernail-polished, across-the-aisle-loving, perfectly coiffed, cocktail-party-invite-wanting group of peacocks out of office.
But this article does a perfect job of summing up how to do it and if one of them REALLY cared, really had an ounce of loyal opposition pride, yea maybe a gonad or two hanging where they oughta be, IT WOULD WORK.
Americans understand about reverse racism and given enough of a hearing, I predict most Americans would not like this supreme court’s nominee’s disdain of white Americans, to include that silly argument that a Latina woman brings more to the table than a white male. Throw in the details of that Ricci case and hey, Sotomayor is damaged goods. I really believe that.
But the Dems sure aren’t going to do it. Already they’ve got their dogs out ranting and raving and scaring the living bejeesus that a fingernail might crack or worse, a head hair might move from its appointed place on the pubs and worst of all, tans might suddenly disappear, should a pub dare to mention Sotomayor’s legitimate issues.
The author points out how Dick Cheney managed to make his case and give the Dems ruffles in that joke of closing Gitmo, yes he did.
Then hey, Dick Cheney...well get HIM to bring up Sotomayor’s problems. He has little head hairs, no tan and I suspect he’s got some gonads. For sure he has no desire to hobnob with friends across the aisle.
But be prepared folks. They will let us down, yes they will.
The whole reason why B Hussain is trying to rush this confirmation is the same reason why everything in this administration has to be enacted yesterday. Zer0 knows that the overwhelming majority would be opposed to this nomination as well as most of his Marxist agenda if they really understood it. The vast majority of the public, however, have no clue what’s really being imposed on them. B0 has the MSM to run interference for him but only for so long, then even the dullest of the sheeple will wake up. The GOPs job is to get the word out no matter what. If they run the debate on principle and don’t allow the left to define the adgenda they have a chance of at least slowing down the judge SoSo train.
Yep. This is going to be a big game of bean bags and pillow fights with toy prizes, pinata candy and smiling photo ops for everybody!
Hear us ... roar...?
I say the Republicans should stand on Principles, and if they have some legitimate concerns over another Judge who will legislate from the bench, then oppose the nomination regardless of race.
more to be gained by galvanizing while males in the base than lost amongst Hispanics who would probably vote Dem in any case
And site the source: “As my learned colleague from the commonwealth of Massachusetts said of Judge Bork...”
Of all the political processes, the one for confirming judges is the most one-sided, and something has got to be done.
See my TAG LINE
Great article. Hopefully, the GOP will grow a pair. If it doesn’t, we should kill it as soon as possible.
meow.
The comments in your #11 are spot on.
As one of the emails following the article opined:
“If…adhering to conservative principles and the pesky discipline of right and wrong is suicidal, then the game is up anyway…”
The author of the American Spectator article, a senior editorial writer at the Washington Times and senior editor of The American Spectator, fails to mention the 8 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee can stop the nomination by withholding an affirmative vote.
Or so we have been informed by various posters, I hope to find time today to confirm that.
If it is true, then its clear the only chance of defeating the nomination is to bring pressure on those 8 Republicans. One way to do that is for each of us to contact each of them and our own Senators.
There are no Blue Dog senators.
Increasingly the problem is reflected on hapless Republican primary voters making the wrong nominations.
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