Comments on: SCOTUS: Emerging Beltway CW Is Sotomayor Hearings Are Test Of GOP Viability http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/ Dip your toe in the legal waters and change politics as you know it. http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:06:02 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: millerdunwoody http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15694 millerdunwoody Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:51:51 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15694 <p>1. “Their challenge will be to remain true to their principles….”</p> <p>What “principles” might these be? From what I’ve seen, every “principle” the Republcans put forth as one of their bedrocks–family values, small government, “freedom”–is usually its polar opposite. These people do not “govern” in the sense that most people understand, I suspect because at heart they are mostly anarchists and nihilists.</p> <p>2. “… or they’re fracturing as a conference and a large number of Rs could end up voting for her.”</p> <p>Imagine: “A large number” of Republicans voting to confirm a perfectly qualified individual for the Supreme Court would constitute a “fracturing” of their conference. This is why the Republican Party is unfit to govern this nation. Assuming Jay Newton-Small is right and there is a significant number of Republicans who would vote against Sotomayor because of little more than party politics and ideology–to hell with the actual fate of the nation (and let’s not mention money right now either)–then it’s clear that these people cannot be allowed near the keys to the vault ever again. When your reasoning abilities are so disrupted by your political ideology that you have to resort to obvious mischaracterizations of known fact in order to make your case, then you don’t deserve to be sitting behind that fucking Senator’s desk.</p> <p>3. “…and a reminder of what we’re well rid of.”</p> <p>He should have written this in a future conditional sense–eg, “… a reminder of what we’d be well rid of if we in the media could ever get the fucking balls to call them on their shit”–because we obviously aren’t rid of it yet.</p> 1. “Their challenge will be to remain true to their principles….”

What “principles” might these be? From what I’ve seen, every “principle” the Republcans put forth as one of their bedrocks–family values, small government, “freedom”–is usually its polar opposite. These people do not “govern” in the sense that most people understand, I suspect because at heart they are mostly anarchists and nihilists.

2. “… or they’re fracturing as a conference and a large number of Rs could end up voting for her.”

Imagine: “A large number” of Republicans voting to confirm a perfectly qualified individual for the Supreme Court would constitute a “fracturing” of their conference. This is why the Republican Party is unfit to govern this nation. Assuming Jay Newton-Small is right and there is a significant number of Republicans who would vote against Sotomayor because of little more than party politics and ideology–to hell with the actual fate of the nation (and let’s not mention money right now either)–then it’s clear that these people cannot be allowed near the keys to the vault ever again. When your reasoning abilities are so disrupted by your political ideology that you have to resort to obvious mischaracterizations of known fact in order to make your case, then you don’t deserve to be sitting behind that fucking Senator’s desk.

3. “…and a reminder of what we’re well rid of.”

He should have written this in a future conditional sense–eg, “… a reminder of what we’d be well rid of if we in the media could ever get the fucking balls to call them on their shit”–because we obviously aren’t rid of it yet.

]]> By: torgo2009 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15693 torgo2009 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:13:07 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15693 <p>Ouch!</p> Ouch!

]]> By: kevsters http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15692 kevsters Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:55:20 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15692 <p>None of the arguments that these Republican Senators are going to hold water. Here is a great analysis of the New Haven Firefighters case, as Justice Ginsburg saw it in her dissenting opinion.</p> <p><a href="http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2159" rel="nofollow">http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2159</a></p> None of the arguments that these Republican Senators are going to hold water. Here is a great analysis of the New Haven Firefighters case, as Justice Ginsburg saw it in her dissenting opinion.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2159

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15639 ThingsComeUndone Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:26:34 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15639 <p>Amen Christy but first the GOP has to selfdestruct I think that means they have to lose another Presidential Election by appealing to the base.<br /> Or a Glen Beck mob of tea baggers could go on a killing spree.<br /> One way the GOP will turn on its own because they DO love power and they want to win the next race. They will lock the crazy Palins away Nixon’s Silent Majority and the Reagan era’s Moral Majority will be pushed from the table.<br /> Or the Crazy branch of the GOP will do something probably with guns on a large scale and America will turn away from them.<br /> The crazy branch everyone thinks is Religious but the Corporate/Libertarian Branch of the GOP has crazies with guns too, they both have Racists unnerved by Obama being in the WH.<br /> Their worldview shatters</p> Amen Christy but first the GOP has to selfdestruct I think that means they have to lose another Presidential Election by appealing to the base.
Or a Glen Beck mob of tea baggers could go on a killing spree.
One way the GOP will turn on its own because they DO love power and they want to win the next race. They will lock the crazy Palins away Nixon’s Silent Majority and the Reagan era’s Moral Majority will be pushed from the table.
Or the Crazy branch of the GOP will do something probably with guns on a large scale and America will turn away from them.
The crazy branch everyone thinks is Religious but the Corporate/Libertarian Branch of the GOP has crazies with guns too, they both have Racists unnerved by Obama being in the WH.
Their worldview shatters

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15623 SouthernDragon Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:08:29 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15623 <p>Konichiwa, Wobbs</p> <p>Nice to see ya again. At work, goofin’ off.</p> Konichiwa, Wobbs

Nice to see ya again. At work, goofin’ off.

]]> By: wobblybits http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15620 wobblybits Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:03:36 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15620 <p>Bom Dia pups,<br /> Life is calmer again, so back to the blogs I go. Hope all is well. This hearing is fascinating and I love that she was so adamant on Roe v. Wade (It is settled law)</p> Bom Dia pups,
Life is calmer again, so back to the blogs I go. Hope all is well. This hearing is fascinating and I love that she was so adamant on Roe v. Wade (It is settled law)

]]> By: SueTheRedWA http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15617 SueTheRedWA Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:19 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15617 <p>Hi RevBev,<br /> Next to my computer on both sides are boxes (one is the top of a copier paper box, the other a boot box) with a blanket or towel in it. I put a cat (have two) in one of the boxes and pet him/her and tell him/her they are wonderful, etc If they get up at the keyboard, they get ignored or picked up and put in the box. You do have to take time, once they are back in the box to tell them they are wonderful and beautiful and do appropriate neck scratches. Cats really like to hear they are perfect.>g</p> Hi RevBev,
Next to my computer on both sides are boxes (one is the top of a copier paper box, the other a boot box) with a blanket or towel in it. I put a cat (have two) in one of the boxes and pet him/her and tell him/her they are wonderful, etc If they get up at the keyboard, they get ignored or picked up and put in the box. You do have to take time, once they are back in the box to tell them they are wonderful and beautiful and do appropriate neck scratches. Cats really like to hear they are perfect.>g

]]> By: jayt http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15586 jayt Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:28:23 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15586 <p><i>This round each senator gets 30 minutes.</i></p> <p>blergh (he says, turning on the teebee to see Beauregard working)</p> <p>oth, kind of enjoyable to hear Judge Sotomayor’s explanantion of <i>Ricci</i> go right the f**k over Beauregard’s head. heh.</p> This round each senator gets 30 minutes.

blergh (he says, turning on the teebee to see Beauregard working)

oth, kind of enjoyable to hear Judge Sotomayor’s explanantion of Ricci go right the f**k over Beauregard’s head. heh.

]]> By: burntbeans http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15585 burntbeans Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:26:57 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15585 <p>AMEN!!!</p> AMEN!!!

]]> By: greenwarrior http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15581 greenwarrior Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:22:03 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/scotus-emerging-beltway-cw-is-sotomayor-hearings-are-test-of-gop-viability/#comment-15581 <p>from your description, i can just picture it. it sounds like wonderful memories.</p> from your description, i can just picture it. it sounds like wonderful memories.

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