Sotomayor Appointment Panics GOP - In a move that had Senate Republicans running for cover, Obama named federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his pick to replace retiring RINO (Republicans in name only) Justice David Souter on the US Supreme Court. Upon confirmation Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic to sit on the high court.
Obama praised Sotomayor as an inspiring woman who "will make a great justice." He went on to say, "Judge Sotomayor has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice. Obama does have a way with words.
Obama is right about one thing, Sotomayor will be invaluable in supporting his socialist/communist/Muslim agenda. Obama wanted a radical, liberal socialist on the high court and he has one. There is little doubt that Sotomayor will be handily confirmed by the Senate despite any objections by Republicans.
Sotomayor makes no doubts that she is a liberal, socialist, activist judge and admits that the court of appeals is as she said, "where policy is made." To hell with the Constitution seems to be the message here.
She is also a racist and once said that Latino women make better judges than white males. "I would hope a wise Latino woman with the riches of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion (as a judge) than a white male who hasn't lived that life," she said. Well now, can't be much plainer than that.
Sotomayor voted to threw out promotions for Haven, Conn. white firefighters because too few minorities did well on the exam. In the 2008 Ricci v. DeStefano case Sotomayor sided with the city that used racially discriminatory practices to deny promotions. Never mind that the white firefighters were top scorers on the exam. We can't have those nasty, white guys getting promotions based on high test scores and merit. Not until all the blacks and other minorities with low exam scores and poor work ethics are first promoted. Then maybe we'll give the whites a couple of promotions.
Sotomayor's colleague, Judge Jose Cabranas, a Clinton appointee, was very critical of her decision. The case is presently under review by the Supreme Court.
In a Berkley speech a few years ago, she said, "It is appropriate for a judge to consider their experiences as women of color. Really, I thought justice was to be judged solely under the Constitution and that justice was "blind." Experiences as a "person of color" should have no bearing on the case being judged.
Sotomayor has a horrible record of reversals by the Supreme Court as a result of her lousy decisions as an appeals court judge. Never mind that she has a terrible track record as a judge, she's a liberal, socialist Hispanic and a racist. Just the type of judge Obama wants on the high court. Let's face it, Obama may need all the judicial activism he can muster if his real "birth certificate" is made public.
On the Republican side Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will lead any opposition to Sotomayor's confirmation which at this point appears to be rather flimsy.
"She must prove her comment to impartiality based on the law rather than based on her own personal politics, feelings and preferences," Cornyn said. That will be hard to prove since she has already demonstrated in her many court decisions just the opposite. He went on to say he would urge his colleagues not to "prejudge or preconfirm" Sotomayor. Given the track record of the present bunch of Republican senators there will probably be more "preconfirming" than prejudging."
Cornyn said he'd ask Sotomayor whether she really felt the role of federal appeals courts was to make policy. Wow, what a really tough question. How will she ever come up with an answer to that one. Bet she says someting like "not really" and thanks for the softball question.
Cornyn then said Sotomayor's opinion in the New Haven firefighters case suggests that her preference is for a quota system of some type when it comes to employment. Suggests my butt. That's exactly what she prefers - a quota system for employment. If this is an example of the Republican opposition to Sotomayor's confirmation why even hold a hearing in the first place.
The Republicans are so damn afraid of alienating the Hispanics that they won't expose Sotomayor for the judicial activist judge she is.
If the Republicans are betting on a Republican comeback in 2010 and 2012 they had better start acting like conservatives instead of a bunch of wimpy, whining RINOs. Opposing the Sotomayer confirmation with the facts and the truth would be a good start otherwise they'll be riding in the back of the bus for the next four or eight years or longer.
Even if they don't have the votes to stop Sotomayor in the full Senate at least they could show a solid wall, with the probable exceptions of RINO Senators Collins and Snowe, of Republican opposition and vote no.
In fact the Republicans could stop Sotomayor as it will take one Republican vote to
confirm her in committee. They could also "filibuster' her confirmation as the Democrats, since the Ron Coleman/Al Franken seat is still in limbo, don't have the votes to stop them.
OMG a filibuster. Not according to the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who has weaseled out of a filibuster and speaks for his Republican colleagues. So much for a resurgence of the GOP.
Where are the Republican leaders? The conservatives? The fighters? Americans are wondering. So far the only ones speaking out have been former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn. Talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have been strong voices for conservatives.
At least former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blasted Sotomayer as a ''racist" and called for her to withdraw her appointment. "White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw," Gingrich wrote in an email. Not according to the Democrats Newt. This only applies to Republican appointees.
The Democrats didn't worry about alienating blacks when they tried to derail the appointment of Justice Clarence Thomas. They used every dirty trick in the book to smear and demonize him. They opposed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and finally forced him to resign. And are now trying to have him prosecuted for firing a few US Attorneys. They were critical of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and did their best to demonize her. Alienating Hispanics and blacks hasn't stopped Democrats if the minorities happen to be Republicans.
The only reason the Democrats didn't attack Colin Powell is because he has been a RINO from the start. He proved that when he came out and publicly supported Obama.
If it hadn't been for Republican President Ronald Reagan, President George H. W. Bush and later President George W. Bush, Powell would have never been Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or Secretary of State. If not for President Reagan I doubt that Powell, who also served as Reagan's National Security Advisor, would have been promoted to full general.
In the early 80s, Powell's commander Gen. John Hudachek said Powell was a poor leader and should not be promoted. The fact that Powell was black probably helped him overcome the bad report and still gain promotion to 4-star rank. He owes a lot of his success in the military and later in politics to Republicans. Powell needs to be booted out of the GOP. Let him pal around with Arlan Spector and the Democrats.
Personally, I've just about had it with the Republicans in Congress. Unless they (at least the men) grow some gonads and throw the RINOs under the bus they may as well get used to being a weak, ineffective, minority party relegated to running errands for the Democrats.
In the meantime Obama is going to pack the Supreme Court with judicial activists. Rejoice America - Socialism has arrived in Amerika!
Excuse me, since Janet Napolitano has branded all of us military retirees and veterans as "Right Wing Extremists" I must hurry off and buy more guns and ammo before Obama's "Civilian Security Force" goons show up.
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Shouldn't your sentence read "There is little doubt that Sotomayor will be handily confirmed by the Senate despite any objections by Republicans,"
instead of
"There is little doubt that Sotomayor will NOT be handily confirmed by the Senate despite any objections by Republicans."
Your post is accurate but most BUSH worshipers fail to understand or believe how our nation has gotten into this mess.
OBUSH and OBAMA are both worthless and so aren't the 535 useless, impotent, brown-nosing politicians servicing this nation orally over the past 30 years. You're ire is well placed but just doesn't go far enough.
The reason OBAMA is president is, in a small part, due to McCain's deliberate self destruction of his own campaign. In a larger part, it is LARGELY due to TEAM BUSH's willful deep-sixing of McCain's new poll surge less than two weeks after the Republican convention. Remember OBAMA & OBIDEN and the pig and lipstick jokes while they trailed for the first time? Can anyone in our massively vegetized society recollect what happened?
It was August 2008 when BUSH announced on TV that the economy was hosed even though we ALL KNOW that this existed as early as February to March 2008 as the White House & the FED were telling Congress to approve a STIMULUS package. This announcement came 60 days before the election and effectively killed McCain's chance of election as a week earlier he had claimed that the economy was sound. TEAM BUSH was effectively HELPING TEAM OBAMA win the election.
When will the rest of America figure out that both parties are effectively trading the White House between parties every 8 years as ordinary rank and file Americans are the ones in the middle being fiscally, morally, and constitutionally raped and violated?
Look as far back as Reagan who, in his inaugural address on a cold day in January 1981 said that we could no long live beyond our means as a nation while borrowing against our children's futures and that fiscal responsibility would begin that very day as he entered office. Over the next 8 years, it would be Reagan who would, under his legislative pen, agree to effectively triple this nation's debt from $930 billion dollars to approximately $2.7 trillion dollars.
Ever since Reagan, America's fiscal responsibility has been a joke. Of all of the presidents since Reagan, CLINTON was the most fiscally responsible which isn't saying much since he drive us further into debt to the tune of $1.551 trillion dollars. But Clinton is far better than BUSH's father who was in office just half of the time that Clinton was and legislatively penned about $1.574 trillion dollars in new debt.
Bush JR effectively doubled this nation's debt in just 8 years. OBAMA will be more of the same. This nation is financially doomed and the whole world knows it. Ask yourself how we got here. It wasn't just one party, but rather an effective orchestration of both parties.
As for SOTOMAYOR, sure she's is worthless. The funnier part is that she was originally a BUSH SR appointee to the bench who will be replacing another worthless BUSH SR appointee that is retiring from the Supreme Court. So, please tell us, what exactly is the difference?
I already know the answer, I just wanted to give you a chance to make another blog post.
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