The American Spectator

Grzmlyk| 5.26.09 @ 3:19PM

Sadly, they'll make a half-hearted show of having the mildest of reservations and then roll over - like they always do.

Limbaugh is right alnd Powell (et al) is wrong: This chasing of victim group votes (in this case Hispanics) is one gigantic surrender to the entire premise of liberalism.

And it never works for Repubs anyway (see 2008 election returns).

We no longer have a two party system in this country. We have internecine squabbles within the Party of the DC Cocktail Circuit.

This is going to be nauseating.

Bigweenie| 5.26.09 @ 4:17PM

Fantastic! GObama! A blue collar Supreme Court Justice from the drabbest of tenements in the Bronx! What a great story, I believe she will be a very good Supreme Court Justice.

big jim| 5.26.09 @ 4:43PM

Bigweenie, your name says it all. What did the Dems do to Bush's latino court picks? Her backround has nothing to do with her lack of judicial ability and temperment.

Diamon| 5.26.09 @ 4:56PM

If the Republican Party rolls over and plays dead then that's it for me. I nose still hurts by pinching it so hard for McCain last year. I have better use of my time then to vote for Democrat lite (tastes terrible and it fills me with disgust).

paleo| 5.26.09 @ 5:41PM

What? No Illinois crony? Who is getting paid back for this pick?

Murphy| 5.26.09 @ 5:42PM

Rush Limbaugh is a lying fascist pig. Who cares what he thinks about anything?

n.zuckerman| 5.26.09 @ 5:47PM

The GOP is truly screwed: vote down a Latina woman? and look forward to the ire of the Spanish vote and the women's vote? Obama has, again, outfoxed the conservatives...she is hardly a bad choice, and Rush has a full-time job so no worries for him to tell the elected GOP what to do...

Spicy Joker| 5.26.09 @ 6:07PM

The Republicans must vote her down. The hell with the Hispanic vote! Anyone who puts his ethnic group before his country is a disgusting freak.

Pkane| 5.26.09 @ 6:29PM

Look, if Republicans are too scared to confront someone on legitimate philosophical grounds just because of their race then what's the point? And if the American people are too far gone to understand the difference then there really is no point.

Look, she's likely going to make it onto the court (if not her, then some other leftist nut job). We have to take a firm stand, make a serious case, and then once she's on the court and starts writing embarrassing, offensive decisions/dissents we can only hope people take notice.

Roy| 5.26.09 @ 6:30PM

I doubt very much that this would hurt Republicans with the "Hispanic vote". Filibustering Estrada did not hurt Democrats. The problem with the "Hispanic vote" is who it listens to and if Republicans can't bypass that they will never get any Hispanic votes anyway.

Mary| 5.26.09 @ 7:48PM

I couldn’t agree more with Rush if I wanted to. I’d only add (and it’s probably already assumed in Rush’s statement) that Republicans should be prepared, when being tagged as anti-Hispanic or racist, to hammer home, right away with Ricci. In fact bring him and other plaintiffs in the case to the hearing. Spreading the word, bringing in the deaths of 300 firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11, and who lost those lives for all races and creeds.

They should also bear in mind (as a matter of strategy and tactics) that there is an inexorable logic, however faulty or malign, that sees redress or reparation as restitution and not activism.

TNR had a piece recently that claimed several non sour-grape colleagues and clerks find her intellectually unimpressive. I’m not saying she is. Her undergrad achievement is Summa. Also, she impressed Moynihan who I don’t’ see as lobbying on her unimpressive behalf. But if her reversal rate is as high as 80%, she's gotta have some problems that will jump when reviewing the reversals in detail

Here’s the thing that will give every liberal re-flux: if she really is unimpressive and becomes the Quayle of the Court. No offense to Qualye meant. I’m speaking of public perception. She’s going to be compared to Saclia first, then probably Ginsburg and Breyer. But Ginsburg and Breyer are not presented as the heft of the Court. Scalia is the name above all others on the Court. Liberals would hate nothing more than their girl/guy becoming an embarrassment of intellectual poverty as compared to Saclia and others, both left and right.

I know elections have consequences, but it’s easy to revel in what might have been while forgetting that it was Nixon who gave us Blackmun.

Depending on her writing abilities as pertains to the law or lack thereof, she might force other members to be squeamish about being associated with her judicial rationale and push the Court not so much in the direction of Scalia, Roberts and Alito, but nowhere near her true north.

Rush understands that this represents an educable moment for the Country.

Republicans have nothing to lose and possibly something to gain by opposing her as far as they can, and really looking at the situation as Rush has advised: as an educable time for the electorate. The electorate, right now, may not care, but Republicans have a duty to record this for posterity, and to do it extremely well showing the greatness of our Constitution with reverence and affection.

Mary| 5.26.09 @ 7:53PM

Oh, and her detractors as noted in TNR are democrats.

Also, should read: she's gotta have some problems that will jump out when reviewing the reversals in detail.

Ames F. Tiedeman| 5.26.09 @ 8:56PM

Not that I'm in any way surprised, but Obama certainly seems to be swinging for the fences. While I am generally happy with Roberts and Alito (for now...), those two are in no way as "conservative" or "originalist" as Sotomayor appears to be "liberal" or "consequentialist". It will be a sad commentary that the media will most likely praise Obama for his noble choice and villify Republicans for even considering questioning the credentials of a LATINA WOMAN, as compared to when Bush nominated two relatively moderate jurists (relative to Scalia & Thomas) the media would have had everyone believe human "progress" was being set back 200 years. The applied double standard shouldn't even be worth noting were it not unapologetically applied to basically everything Obama does.

INCOHERENT:

Here's a quote from Sotomayor -

"I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society....

"I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that - it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others....

"Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor [Martha] Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." [U.C. Berkeley School of Law, 10/26/2001]

I THOUGHT JUSTICE WAS SUPPPOSED TO BE BLIND??? What is the "law" worth if it is to be applied differently to different types of people? Isn't the whole point of the law - and also one of the primary components of any successful and just nation - that every citizen is to be considered EQUAL under the RULE OF LAW??? Wasn't this part of the whole point of breaking away from monarchical Britain - that some people carried privileges of exemption from the law while others experienced heavier legal burdens? The correct thing to say would be: It is the case that by qualifying our differences... we do a disservice both to the law and society..."

tonypal| 5.26.09 @ 10:48PM

Murphy:

I can recommend a good psychotherapist to help you deal with your projection issues. Once you clear that up, maybe you can work on finally getting out of diapers.

ds80| 5.26.09 @ 11:03PM

Murphy's posts (like D. Matthews'), are the equivalent of masturbating.

They're the only ones who get anything out of their messy little eruptions.

jim rice| 5.27.09 @ 9:53AM

I assume that the quote from Rush was taken out of context?

Otherwise, that's just hilarious. Half the people on this board have better and more coherent ideas that that bloated piece of crap. If there's a good case to be made against Obama's pick, then it should be heard the loudest. Instead what we hear loudest from the Conservatives of the nation is blowhard bs from this pathetic entertainer.

This is his end-all-be-all reason for needing to oppose Sotomayor? "because the American people need to know who Barack Obama really is, and his choice of Sonia Sotomayor tells everybody, if we will tell the story of her, who he is."

Ridiculous.

Basil Plumley| 5.27.09 @ 11:27AM

Murphy| 5.26.09 @ 5:42PM
Rush Limbaugh is a lying fascist pig. Who cares what he thinks about anything?

Is there anyone else who gets the irony of Murphy's statement?
Like the Stalinists of old, you accuse folks what you yourself are guilty of.
Good job Murphy-Tommy Pain-Jeremiah; keep up the lying.
(pssst-any other female Iraqi bloggers you want to recommend?)

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