I’d suggest a drinking game on wingnutty talking point repitition, but we’d all be blitzed within minutes, I fear.

Hee-hee. The wingers lost their marbles long ago – glad to see they’re losing basic skills, as well.

Thanks for the good news, Christy!

On criticism of Sotomayor from the Reichwing machine is that her ethnicity will make her too willing a tool of minorities and the oppressed. If her views were demonstrably extreme, yes, but they are not. And the machine isn’t talking about the extremes of others, it is talking about basic awareness of the situations and plights of others.

If their logic held water, it would mean all angry white males, like Scalia, and angry black males, like Thomas, should be off the bench. That would leave polite, sly automatons like Roberts, and quietly angry men like Alito. What a world it would be if they were the only judges of civil rights and the limits of state and corporate power.

Don’t need to keep score, the entire MSM will be repeating the rethug talking points as fact before the end of the day.

Be very careful when hitting “Send All”…

Republican Talking Points on Judge Sotomayor == “ZOMG! She’s not an angry old white male!”

Pull out yer smelling salts. Mitt Romney finds the Sotomayor nomination “troubling.”

Shocked, shocked, I tell ya.

Perhaps we should send emails to the the corporate newspeakers stating that the world has the talking points and that we’re keeping track. With the journalistic acumen they’ve shown for, oh, the last 2-3 decades, they’re prolly unaware of the leak.

o Republicans are the minority party, but our belief that judges should interpret rather than make law is shared by a majority of Americans.

What tragic irony that the party which purportedly shares the beliefs of a majority of Americans has driven most of them to the other side.

What BS, Republicans have no problem with activist judges provided they are conservative.

Uh. Mah. Gawd. The head of Judicial Watch just went on MSNBC and said the evidence he has that Sotomayor is a judicial activist on the bench is because President Obama chose her.

And David Schuster just laughed out loud at him. Oh man. This could be a popcorn-a-riffic sort of day. *g*

Nice touch, Mike can’t even get her first name right.

Huckabee: “Maria” Sotomayor Comes From “The Far Left”

Those who claim Sotomayor is an intellectual lightweight must imagine George Bush as a heavyweight. Both her degrees from Ivy League schools were exceptional, not gentleman C’s, as has been her personal approach to her work.

I’ll leave it to Christy and others to give opinions about the standard of her appellate court opinions. But I’m especially impressed with one criticism from the Right. Judge Sotomayer is a catty, chatty woman who is too controlling in her court room (at both the district and appellate levels). One might level the same criticism at the Right’s vaunted Scalia.

More importantly, she is a small, Hispanic woman from the wrong side of the tracks in New York (not Manhattan’s Upper East Side or Central Park West). She has before her the richest and poorest plaintiffs and defendants in New York. The most powerful, ambitious and networked lawyers in Amnerica. The most negligent and ethics-challenged and incompetent lawyers, too. She either controls her courtroom with determination and humor or they sweep the floor with her. She controls it.

Yep — had that up in the previous post. With a West Side Story Youtube. Couldn’t help myself. *G*

The wingers are just so logical. s/

Reading the article, I kept seeing Orin Hatch in my mind’s eye and hearing the words in his voice.

Heh!

“This strikes me as an opportune moment for an news show/article game:…” which I read as news showfarticle .

Still works even if I do need new glasses.

Not sure that hitting the send all tab was done erroneously. It may have done deliberately in an attempt to create an illusion that the rethugs want to take a principled position.

Nice rundown of Sotomayors Appellate Court opinions by Tom Goldstein here.

Today the cabal news channels should have been playing the “Bugs Bunny Overture” as their bumper music to the Sotomayor story.

Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you’ll hit the heights
And oh what heights we’ll hit
On with the show this is it

found this at wiki the other day –

In September 2003, Klayman left the organization to run for the United States Senate from Florida.[9] In 2006 Klayman sued Judicial Watch and its president Tom Fitton. The lawsuit charged Fitton misrepresented his academic and professional credentials upon hiring, and upon assuming his position engaged in false and misleading fund raising, misuse of donor money, failure to appoint an attorney as Chairman, failure to comply with a promised severance package to Klayman, and other actions which damaged Judicial Watch, the donors and Klayman. The lawsuit is ongoing.[10][11]

I was just reading a list of the characters from West Side Story and I think it might be beneficial to Republicans if they adopted the nicknames of Jets members. So many good choices but I’m leaning toward “Gee-Tar” for Huckabee.

Here it is in German (I believe).

It would be nice to flood the airways with commercials replaying all of the Republic demands for up-or-down votes.

And David Schuster just laughed out loud at him.

I love it when he does that.

and I love it that he makes no bones about doing it.

Laughing in the face of ridiculosity – right on nation teevee. You gotta admire that.

I can’t help but think of the underground folks led by Jason Robards in A Boy and His Dog. For symbols of crazy people they fit the bill.

Hold on there! The RNC is still using faxes!?

What happened to that super-duper brand-fangled-new tweet technology?

Here is Gerry Seinfeld singing it for Elaine. Is it a sponge worthy performance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcXBcMxUPc

they posted some of his twitter comments on msnbc’s site, they were hilarious.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

I said this at the end of Sister Jane’s post earlier but I think that the Washington “village” is about to be hit by an Obama search and destroy mission. It’s been clear for some time that all the fascist oligarchy has left is control of the video visuals of political issues and CIA torture and hit squads and this nomination process may very well be a political Battle of Gettysburg…this may be the end of the Republican Party as we have known it in various incarnations since 1860.

…and what the fuck is up with Brother Turley??!!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THIS IS JUST A BATTLE, THE WARS GO ON AND ON AND…

I would like to see the list of 500 names / recipients. There is, imo, a story in that…and the people have a right to know!

heh, these clowns are still tryin’ to figure out Windoze 3.1.

Doubt it, she seemed unimpressed. Have to admit, all my knowledge of high culture also comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons…

“…this may be the end of the Republican party as we have know it in various incarnations since 1860: ‘…not with a bang but a whimper.’”

That particular characteristic should serve her well going up against that other intellectual heavyweight on the court, Clarence Thomas. /s

Calitics reporting Supreme Court upholding 8 and preserving existing marriages -

can’t get in to Opinions server

here’s link:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2…..-marriage/

Can talking points also be cliches?

You know, like, I’m just happy to be part of the team?

Until we have a full view of the facts and comprehensive understanding of Judge Sotomayor’s record, Republicans will avoid partisanship and knee-jerk judgments – which is in stark contrast to how the Democrats responded to the Judge Roberts and Alito nominations.

What is funny about this is how far Alito went in obscuring his record and how much Republicans let him.

The scene where Don Johnson is being married to a procession of brides while hooked up to the (ahem) extraction device was memorable.

These are way too sane to actually be the official talking points- goopers released this to sound sane- but of course the insanity will follow as night follows day.

Alito was a one-man GOP sleeper cell.

Ugh, that is just rude. I was witness to a bigot who was disgusted to have a hispanic woman in a discussion group a few years ago. She kept calling her Maria even though the Latina was not named Maria and gently corrected her every single time the bigot said Maria. It is just a not so subtle slam.

prop 8 and latina-gate
both on the same day
the fox newsers dwellin’
on what they’ll be tellin’
show ‘maria’ or cover the gay?

there goes my schedule again.

Hey my comments keep disappearing! the site is telling me to STFU! LOL

Citizen ratfood:

“Alito was a one man GOP sleeper cell.” And he’s stayed asleep ever since his confirmation…Thomas and Alito, if they were two of the Seven Dwarfs they would be Dopey and Sleepy.

Turley doesn’t think much of the intellect behind her opinions, fwiw.

The IPA is happy:

Obama’s Pick on Religious Liberty
Posted at 09:15 AM on 05/26/09

President Obama, this morning, nominated Judge Sonya Sotomayor for the US Supreme Court. An early survey of her opinions on religious liberty issues is very encouraging:

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

1. Notable examples include:

-Flamer v. City of White Plains (1993). This case involved a suit by a rabbi who had sought permission to display a menorah in a city park, but was denied permission in light of a city council resolution barring fixed outdoor displays of religious or political symbols in parks. The rabbi’s suit challenged the resolution as unconstitutional. Judge Sotomayor (then on the district court) agreed and struck down the resolution as a content-based regulation of speech that discriminated against religious speech.

http://www.ou.org/public_affai…..ngle/53915

It goes on from there… another interesting decision:

-Hankins v. Lyght (2006). In this case, a 70 year-old Methodist minister brought an age discrimination claim against the Methodist Church after he was fired pursuant to the church’s mandatory retirement rules. Judge Sotomayor dissented from the panel majority’s decision to send the case back to the district court for further analysis under two different statutes. Instead, she took the position that the federal age discrimination in employment statute simply did not apply in this context, because applying it would entail undue intrusion into religious matters. She wrote: “Federal court entanglement in matters as fundamental as a religious institution’s selection or dismissal of its spiritual leaders risks an unconstitutional ‘trespass[] on the most spiritually intimate grounds of a religious community’s existence.” Given those concerns, she concluded that the federal statute was best read “not [to] apply to employment suits brought against religious institutions by their spiritual leaders.”

Link to #46 above:

http://www.ou.org/public_affai…..ngle/53915

Cali Supremes uphold Prop 8 – leave marriages performed in the interim in place.

Prop 8 upheld.

Latinos are the fastest growing voting group in the nation. Goopers get to decide whether to alienate them permanently or piss off their rabid “base”.

What’s a gooper ignorati to do?

i left cornyn’s comments in the previous thread, but the one that stands out is wehre he said the fbi and the aba still had to look at her, wouldn’t they have both done that already?

dunno.

Mitch McConnell’s statement (via the Great Orange Satan) tracks the talking points pretty well; no surprise there. (Though it’s amped up a little bit on how fair they’re going to be, so make sure you’re not drinking anything when you read it.)

It’s a feature, not a bug. *g* They’re still working on that. Ya just have to refresh. Drives me nuts.

Thomas could also be Grumpy.

Not unexpected but damned irritating.

thanks.

so sad.

Releaseing the memo to the media was no accident! The republicans know better than Dems, in fact have perfected the art of controlling the media, including liberal blogs.

I watched part of the arguments. Starr danced circles around the opposition, and the Qs from the judges very much tipped their hands.

Spit.

bbl

hatch just on msnbc…..attacking her ‘bias’. the talking point faxes finally went out. ended with –’i tend to be fair’.

Cornyn’s mention of the ABA is also particularly rich since Bush dumped the ABA review process based on the laughable assertion that they had an anti-conservative bias.

Orrin Hatch spewing the usual nonsense as to how judges have no business being human beings whilst on the bench.

newsflash, Senator. If that’s the case, there is no need for judges at all. Computers could take care of everything, and the Supreme Court could be run by the IT guys.

though on the bright side, there would be no need for us to have to suffer through listening to you, Beauregard and the other Senate Judiciary repub cretins.

oh, and christy–thanks for the juicy post, looks like we guessed many of them earlier…yep.

The justices had already made up their minds and could as easily have ruled on the same day. They only waited to create the illusion of deliberation.

I don’t know anything about the state of the CA Supreme Court. What is it about them that they had already made up their minds before the case was heard?

thanks..

oh GOD…TUCKER is now the EXPERT on fox…oh my god their train has landed in the swamp.

this can’t be real.

Good. I’ll go tell the gators.

tucker–the point is ‘the promise of america’ is that everyone gets the same justice, and that she doesn’t believe that…

(antbrain, goes by scent.)

he says–how about a wise judge?

(he’s a brain surgeon?)

hate it, gotta go. don’t let me miss anything, put it all in the comments for me…
bbl.

According to your link there was a lack of relevant precedent but I can’t claim any insight into their thinking.

My unqualified opinion was that the clause in the California Constitution stating that ballot initiatives cannot be used to impose discrimination should have been reason enough to overturn Prop 8.

Did the California Supreme Court rule in accordance with the law and the constitution?

Let the obstruction begin.

Joe Scraborough has already started the propaganda by spewing partisan rhetoric in this clip. I’m sure there will be many more.

He must have received the T.P.’s

http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1352

The wingers are just so logical. s/ chidish an predictable

there, fixed it fo ya

the truth is funnier

an I got a question for the proprietor:

Hey Christy, how is it that you are the only FDL blogger who doesn’t have the spell check tool in the comment window ???

make em spend the extra bucks to get your site full equality

or maybe the brainiacs around here don’t need teh speel check, and that’s a feature only provided for the rubes an goobers at the less intellectually gifted partner sites ???

jes askin, is all

(wink)

Can an entire political party get Alzheimer’s?

Lack of relevant precident sounds like baloney to me. IANAL, but I believe in law there is something like case-of-first-impression. (One of the 13 suits filed against me in my will contest included such an one, according to the legal eagles.) They happen all the time in the law.

Agree with you about the minority thing, but what do I know.

I’m off. BBL.

From what I’m currently reading, Prop 8 actually revised the CA Constitution in such a way as to create loophole in the equal protection clause. I’m confident very few people who voted for it understood the fine print.

“Proposition 8 superseded the Supreme Court’s May 2008 ruling that legalized same-sex unions by changing the state constitution to outlaw them.”

Obviously this is an intentional “unintentional media leak” intended to show how reasonable Republicans are. Reminds me of the time a microphone was left open in a private President Bush meeting when he swore everyone to secrecy and then stated his public position.

the last one…ha..orrrrrr. another option,
everyone has a ’spelling pass’ here. you must not have rolled a high enough number. re-roll your ’strengths’… lol. (dungeon thing)

and spellcheck red underline shows in my box.
manuver, red line…maneuver, no red line.

no ‘edit’, and sporadic ‘reply’ and empty boxes, have to refresh.

ok, bye.

what i responded to, ‘diskapeared’.

Has someone already suggested we also keep track of how many of the inbred media pretend that these talking points aren’t “out there”?

Cut, meet paste.

Perfection! LOL

I’m hearing the phrase “personal preference” thrown around by certain righty-right Senators. May be expect excusions into Judge Sotomayor’s bedroom?

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Well to be fair … let us stop a moment and consider .. Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor is no Harriet Meyers.

This is so racist! You are totally dismissing the Angry Old Black man on the court….

then there are the pre-nominatiuon talking points – had to turn off NPR noon show – some wingnutter kept referring to Obama’s “lawless empathy standard.” Of course, his assumption was that Judge S. would was the epitome of that “lawless standard.”

Grrrrr.

Huckabee’s “Maria” flub would be laughable if it weren’t so infuriating. If she were a man, Huck would’ve called here “Jose.”
Thanks for the West Side Story” clip – calmed me down a bit.
Sigh. Will it ever stop?

Thomas could also be Grumpy.

Or “Humpy”.

Something that was mentioned in one of the links in Ms. Smith’s previous post about Judge Sotomayor is that the right wing is going to make a big deal that she was reversed 3 out of 6 times by the Supreme Court. What they won’t mention is that the Supremes for the last three years have reversed 75% of the cases brought before them which indicates that Judge Sotomayor knows what she’s doing.

Christy,
I just came across your May 13 “OLC: Make That A Stick, Harry…” diary. Don’t know how I could have missed it the first time around, but it is still circulating in e-mail land! I wish Harry Reid wouldn’t get the vapors every time the Republicans threaten a filibuster. C’mon, Harry, time to grow some spine!

Thanks again for that post, and many others!

Bob in HI