Everyone things this is a done deal, I do not.
"Sonia Sotomayor will begin her confirmation hearings next week with some of the highest levels of public opposition of any Supreme Court nominee in the last two decades, according to a new poll by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation."
Uh Ohhhh....
"In fact, only one nominee had a higher level of opposition: Harriet Miers, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005..." read more here.
SO WHAT?
THE SENATE VOTE IS THE ONLY POLL THAT MATTERS
Posted by: Danny Inferno | July 13, 2009 at 09:50 AM
dumb & ignorant is 5'4"
Posting in all caps makes
him feel big and important.
Hey di it ain't working.
Silly little acorn nut.
Posted by: maddypie2 | July 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM
James, the repubs don't roll the way the dems do. She'll be confirmed. No one is going to pull a low class Ted Kennedy on her, nor will the right treat her the way the left treats right appointees.
Posted by: Billiam | July 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM
"...nor will the right treat her the way the left treats right appointees."
Is that so? Then it should be smooth sailing for the wise Latina.
Estrada, Owen and Pickering were GW's only appellate nominations held up by Senate Democrats. And GW did a recess appointment for Pickering and backroom dealing got him a deal on Owen. Of the 300 or so names he sent to the Hill, 297 went through.
The diatribe on Sotomayor is just one more vapid example of GOP cherry picking info to suit their latest crusade.
Posted by: Joe Mamma | July 13, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Joey blah blah blah blah blah.
Why don't you regales us with all of the stories of Republican Presidents Supreme Court appointees who were anti-American(please give any nationality of choice)who would use their small minded bias to rewrite law as they saw fit.
Please make sure to include their poor over turned ruling records.
And find me the names of all of those who called out the opposite sex and
said they could do a better job because of
their sex.
In other words my dense one find me someone who had all the red flags soto has and yet the angelic left passed them through on a magic carpet.
Don't know how you have the info. on Owen being put through by President Bush in a back room, but I would think that would be right up yours and bo's alley.
Twentysix czars
back room deals to bribe dems to vote for crap and tax.
Come on you acron nut you can't have it both ways.
Posted by: maddypie2 | July 13, 2009 at 02:58 PM
It's nice they're allowing patients at the nervous hospital to go online.
Posted by: Joe Mamma | July 13, 2009 at 03:34 PM
"The diatribe on Sotomayor is just one more vapid example of GOP cherry picking info to suit their latest crusade."
Janis Rogers Brown...next? Basically the same thing happened here as is happening now to Sotomayor. The exception is that she had to wait 2 years for an appellate seat.
Posted by: Happenstance | July 13, 2009 at 03:40 PM
I hope you are right James. If it's not okay for me to be a racist, sexist, chauvinist, why would anyone in their right mind think it's okay for a supreme court justice to be a racist, sexist, chauvinist? Just asking, you know.
Posted by: arnie behnke | July 13, 2009 at 03:51 PM
joey
"It's nice they're allowing patients at the nervous hospital to go online."
To steal phrase:
Dude you're you're killing me a "nervous hospital."
Please dude bone up on some adult vocabulary before posting again.
It did make me laugh
though.
Posted by: maddypie2 | July 13, 2009 at 04:02 PM
Al Franken takes the cake at the Senate Confirmation Hearing.
He states she is the "most experienced nominee in the last 100 years."
Yeah except for Brandeis, Rehnquist, OWH, Warren, and even Taft from the top of my head. There are more, but this type of hyperbole is amazing. Robert Bork had more experience than Sotomayor, but he was trounced by hyperbolic attacks from Kennedy and Biden. What is good for the goose is good for the gander? Don't think that is happening...
Posted by: Happenstance | July 13, 2009 at 05:36 PM
THE FOOL ON THE HILL
Jeff Sessions' inner compass may have kept him from smoking pot with his KKK pals, but it didn't steer him clear of their Kool-Aid.
Posted by: Danny Inferno | July 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM