[Grovenet] From Politico . . .

[Allen Warren]

It really is sad how our Congressional so-called "leaders" put Supreme Court nominees through the wringer.  It's bad enough that nominees like Sotomayor have to first run a gauntlet just to reach the point where they can be considered as a nominee, but then each nominee has to sit through pompous, scathing badgering which is mostly show with little substance.  And it's not just Sotomayor I'm talking about.  It's all of her predecessors in at least the last 30 years.

Kudos to Sotomayor for not jumping up to run over and strangle some of the Repulicans.  And kudos to her predecessors for not doing the same with the opposition party in past nomination hearings.

I firmly believe in and support our government.  But these nomination hearings are simply a mechanism for the opposition party to drag on the pre-destined approval process to both badger the nominee and also hope they can somehow, magically find a "smoking gun" that simply isn't there.
 
Allen Warren


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From: Bob Browning <rab at jurislex.com>
To: Grovenet <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:20:23 PM
Subject: [Grovenet] From Politico . . .


I just heard Sen Coburn using a Dezi Arnas phrase from the Lucy Show. Yet another reference to Sotomayor's latin heritage. These Republicans never stop. If you're wondering what they're doing they're playing to the base. Recall what Limbaugh (the figure head of the conservative movement) remarked early in this process: "Sotomayor is a racist" (paraphrased). That's what they're probing for. They are looking to affirm their "reverse-discrimination" mantra. These guys are intent on making this nomination about race apprently because the latina woman has had her foot on the throat of conservative white male elites for such a long time. It really is an insight into the sociopathology and dogmatic intellect of the conservative mind.