Posted on 05/30/2009 5:06:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Republican strategy on Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor has been mixed so far, with an official response from Congressional leaders expected during the Sunday talk shows or when Congress returns to session on Monday morning.
Republican leaders outside of Congress have opted for a full-throttle attack, with others opting for a more moderate wait-and-see approach.
Grover Norquist, head of the influential tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, said there has been quiet on the Republican front, and for good reason.
“They are avoiding the [Ted] Kennedy rush to the floor to denounce Bork before there is any national discussion. Knowing what we have on her on tape, her decisions, and her rate of being overturned and the quota decision that may be overturned before she gets voted on....the news for her just gets worse. Why announce opposition now?” he told CQ Politics.
Norquist pointed to the rash approach of Ted Kennedy towards the nomination of Robert Bork as evidence that a more muted approach is the best for Sotomayor. But a number of conservative groups and media outlets have already brought into question Sotomayor’s extra-judicial comments and court records to try and work up opposition to her nomination.
The Women’s Coalition for Justice, which is comprised of half a dozen conservative women’s groups, is planning a Tuesday event at which they will voice her concerns over her ambiguous views on abortion.
“Even if President Obama feels ‘comfortable’ with Sotomayor on the court, she herself has never ruled on abortion, nor spoken directly on the matter,” the Susan B. Anthony List said in a statement on its blog. “This is one issue that the American people deserve an answer on.”
The American Center for Law and Justice said the Sotomayor pick would trigger a national debate about judicial activism.
“This nomination raises serious questions about the issue of legislating from the bench,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. “We’re hopeful that the members of the Senate will ask the tough questions about her judicial philosophy and temperament when the confirmation hearings get underway this summer.”
Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, is prepared to do that, but maybe not with the strong wording that the ACLJ used – not yet, anyway.
“Our Democratic colleagues have often remarked that the Senate is not a ‘rubber stamp’,” said McConnell. “Accordingly, we trust they will ensure there is adequate time to prepare for this nomination, and a full and fair opportunity to question the nominee and debate her qualifications.”
One more RINO identifying process. You have to find the Alligators to drain the swamp.
does not exist.
The GOP is walking around like a duck whacked in the head with a board and they don't even see the hole in front of them where they will be buried.
“others opting for a more moderate wait-and-see approach”.
...ala the last 4 years, this will be the chosen route.
Because while you RINOs are playing grabass in the waiting room, the RATS are out there singing her praises and setting up the limits of what can be said against her.
Can't believe it, but I agree with Nordquist.
Anyone who looks at the last two elections has to knwo that yelling and screaming at her only makes her look the victim of the white guy party.
We have to keep our positions and get people to COME to us--not throttle them, which everyone resists. It's not about being a RINO and going along with the libs--it's about letting the facts (which are on our side) come out, so people will come to the same conclusion on their own, and then think "Maybe those conservatives ain't so nutty after all."
Yelling and screaming only lets the MSM say "See? Look at those people, the racists who oppose Obama."
Get the facts out there, so people won't think "Oh, you can't believe what THEY say, they've been against her from the moment they say a Latina woman!" or whatever her handle is. Let people get to know her real record, and we won't have to go to them, they'll come to us. And even if she gets through, we'll be seen as having been in the right, and not just rushing to trash.
we need a vast purge....either we purge ourselves and form a true conservative party or we purge the RINOs out.
either way, I don’t care. It just cant stay the way it is.
As far as I’m concerned, any R that votes for her is TOAST.
No $ ever, and $ for ANY challenger no matter what party.
On the other hand Rush’s daily pounding of Sonia Sotomayor seems to be working. Rush actually flushed out Captain Zero on Friday forcing him to respond in an Oval Office interview to his criticism of the nomination of an unqualified, female Spaniard. Obama’s response was as lame as his selection of Sonia.
Exactamundo! The RINOs always let the RATS frame the debate and the results are disastrous. Rush knows better than anyone how to fight that.
We’re seeing a repeat of the Bob Michel days of Republican subservience.
By being mild in our criticism, we will get the Black, Hispanic, and African-American vote, and more of the women. Can't you see?
If only you had the rich heritage of a Latina Woman, I am sure you would understand!
In other news, coke-snorting former British citizen wins election to oval office, country broke. Iranians buy A-Bomb from North Koreans. North Koreans launch rockets toward Japan. Film at 11:00.
Here is a question Sotomajor should be asked.
Explain the divisions in government as defined by the Constitution ?,What is the role of the Congress when it comes to appropriations ? Can a President in his executive role appropriate funds to a project of major consequence Congress was to appropriate but was not given the opportunity to do so, because it was breeched or encroached by executive action ? ref:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260730/posts
http://www.theusmat.com/
I never give money to politicians directly. I don't like doing it and I don't have the money to do it. I do occasionally give money to the NRA political victory fund, especially during election years, but I am limited to what I can give.
I use my vote to make a statement. I would not however entertain giving to any party that would give us another Obama. That is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The problem is that they wait forever.....
.....and don't see until it is too late.
They will wimp out, not ask the tough questions, and confirm her. They will not do the job they were elected to do.
Then they will complain about the way she rules, legislating from the bench, after it is too late.
Republicans need to ask her why she was right and the Supreme Court was wrong, in those 5 cases that were overturned?
1. The numbers are not on the conservatives side. Dem’s + Rinos = Sotomayor confirmation. That’s the barefaced fact, and barring some kind of miracle, Sotomayor is confirmed.
2. The best strategy against Sotomayor is to unite conservatives for the 2010 election to increase conservative representation in the Senate. The purpose is to end the rubber-stamping of Obama selections to the court.
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