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Sotomayor lecturing Michelle Bachmann
Despite the fact that the wingnut brigades will be providing a target-rich environment of mock fodder over Sonia Sotomayor, I’m already burned out after a mere 36 hours. Therefore, I will leave the Sotomayor idiotgasm to more interested parties*.
As Kevin Drum put it:
We all know how this is going to play out. First, everyone is going to start looking for some dark secret in her background that will derail her nomination. That will probably fail. Then she’ll testify before the Senate, and everyone will ask what she thinks of Roe and Casey and Kelo. She’ll dutifully claim that she’s never even heard of these cases, and on the off chance that any of them ring a bell, she’ll sing the usual song about how it would be improper to say anything about any matter that might come before the court in the future. Which is everything. After a few weeks of this, all the Democrats and maybe a dozen or so Republicans will vote to confirm her and she’ll join the court in time for the fall term.
It’s all so tedious.
Ditto.
*Disregard this if it turns out that Sotomayer killed Vince Foster or if she cuts that bitch, Wendy Long. Then I’m back in. Also, anything that pops into my mind about Sotomayor will be on my twitter thingy. 140 space, bitches…
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Good choice, TBogg. In fact, Kevin Drum could’ve saved us a week or so of handwringing if he’d only started the story earlier:
etc.
Unfortunately, we all get as excited about this as we do about Congressional and Presidential races, even though the process is well defined, lacks a direct opponent (reducing the likelihood/stakes of losing – ), and is even a little more dignified than the selection process in the other two branches.
Maybe I still have a little too much faith in President N-dimensional Chess, but I think we’re getting a little too exercised for what is a preliminary bout. OTOH, if Nino decides to hang it up during this term…
Yeah, if Nino decided to hang it up…that happy thought gets a lot more realistic in a second Obama term…Thomas clearly hasn’t been happy for a long time, kinda ala Souter, at least…Stevens will retire this first term, and the work environment Nino and Thomas will have been in by the start of a second Obama term…
Obama may be screwing up some big stuff, and I’ve lost most of what little hope I had, but if he actually produces a public-option health care regime, and gets re-elected, things could work out yet…
PrawfsBlawg did the same thing in a more erudite manner, and I am debating whether to show it to Christy or not.
Bartoli out!
After a few weeks of this, all the Democrats
and maybe a dozen or so Republicansand those two chicks from Maine will vote to confirm her.Fixed.
I heard that Sotomayor has Che Guevaro living in her basement. Or maybe it’s Castro or Chavez.
I heard she was the Number One Most Liberal Person in America. No, seriously, I heard that.
Can Sotomayor prove where she was when Vince Foster supposedly committed suicide? I think that we’re onto something here. Where was she on 9/11?
No, no…. She is divorced, no kids, never remarried – obviously she is in a lesbian relationship with that other lesbo: Hillary Clinton.
Doesn’t Scalia go duck hunting with Cheney? One can hope…
Nope! We’re talking hot hot NYC-on-Long-Island action! Wait until you see the video; the motion is sustained.