SCOTUS: Oh GOP “Leaders,” Please Never Change

Christy Hardin Smith Tuesday May 26, 2009 8:21 am

Via Ben Smith, by way of Atrios, I find this erstwhile GOP presidential candidate gem from Mike Huckabee:

The appointment of Maria Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is the clearest indication yet that President Obama’s campaign promises to be a centrist and think in a bipartisan way were mere rhetoric. Sotomayor comes from the far left and will likely leave us with something akin to the "Extreme Court" that could mark a major shift.

Did they employ some SNL reject to write this up?  Because it certainly reads like a badly scripted skit.  "Extreme Court."  Oh, that’s a good one.  Burn. 

*cough*

Or do you think the "they are all named Maria, aren’t they" slippage was just a typo?

Laughter. It really is the best medicine.

(YouTube — some West Side Story goes nice with a bit of morning snark…)


 
4 Responses to "SCOTUS: Oh GOP “Leaders,” Please Never Change"
4jkb4ia | Tuesday May 26, 2009 08:27 am 1

Worse, this slipup shows that Mike Huckabee cannot really like baseball.

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dmac | Tuesday May 26, 2009 08:35 am 2

thad bingel
she’s not a bipartidan choice.

other guy–moderate, at least 70 votes. brilliant legal mind. another home run decision. someone who will gather bipartisan support.

thad–not moderate, more liberal that was on the short list, conventional pick. left of chenter pres, liberal leaning judge….

moderator–hispanics fastest voter group/

other guy–superb judge superb background

the best in country?/

other guy–political issues, real solid basis for opposing her, robers was brilliant, here it’s very similar..with impeccable credentials, latino, added plus, woman as well, repub need really god reason to go agiant her

rebubs don’t have #s/

thad–really rough to stop nomination…judicial philosophies to interpret not empathy (of what you want law to be) …….laying ground work for future battles in this presidency.

ok, done. same keywords by all….brilliant, incredible story-so what, liberal schools, temperament-ie woman, woman, latina, tried the ‘is she the best in the land’ thing, woman, latina, emotional-oh, that was simply implied, compelling personal story….one brought up ginsberg and scalito’s friendship as an example of diametrically opposed people being aok with each other. dunno, i think they haven’t dropped the ‘fliers’ from the airplanes yet.

rove is on now….

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dmac | Tuesday May 26, 2009 08:42 am 3
In response to dmac @ 2

forgot one–white men…..ha.

rove–
‘difficult colleague’

roadblock, on the other hand, judicial committee rules require that 10 votes in affirm to send to the floor, one from the minority…..will repubs say she is unworthy to be a sc justice….obama voted against roberts and alito…voted to filibuster alito..

comment to schumer’s comments–prejudging, easy for obama to vote against two of the most accomplished judges, footage of her at duke-we make law and policy, berkely-white men judges. we’re gonna have all kinds of interesting things that will play out…(i bet)
someone who is controversial, a chance to appoint a woman and a latino, sensitive to criticisms, never going to be stronger as he is today.

fini.

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cbl2 | Tuesday May 26, 2009 09:05 am 4
In response to dmac @ 3

“we make policy” bs -

as properly parsed by Media Matters

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