Not one to mince words, here's what Rush had to say on Sotomayor:
She is a horrible pick. She is the antithesis of a judge, by
her own admission and in her own words. She has been overturned
80% by the Supreme Court. She may as well be on the Ninth
Circus Court of Appeals, given all the time she's overturned.
She has been reprimanded by a truly strong Hispanic judge, Jose
Cabranes. She has been rebuked in writing by Cabranes for
opinions that she wrote that had no bearing on the
constitutional issues before her in the case that was being
decided. Details on that coming up. But here is why, even
though she may not be able to be stopped, here is why Sonia
Sotomayor needs to be opposed by the Republicans as far as they
can take it, 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.
He got up in his announcement and said everything about her
that isn't true, that she's a great constitutionalist; that she
doesn't use personal opinion; that she understands what her
role is and the oath is of a Supreme Court justice. She has
done just the opposite of that. She is a hack like he is a hack
in the sense that the court is a place to be used to make
policy, not to adjudicate cases, not to adjudicate
constitutional law but to make policy.
The test is whether or not Republican leadership will aid in the
crucial hearings in a way that adequately shows who this woman is
as a judge. They have to do this skillfully, without looking like
they're just out to stop Obama's pick because she's Obama's pick.
And they have to do it without worrying about the Hispanic vote.
