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SeaBassTian
05/27/09

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"My grandmother would have been shocked and appalled to see someone who makes so much save so little." Maybe I am feeling Machiavellian today, but I would push his grandmother down a flight of stars for that bank balance.
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BxgrlJeri
05/26/09

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Go home girl!
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kneetoe
05/26/09

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Let's recap the Republican arguments above. Rush: Obama's a racist. Ok. Ann: Let's vote for her because the Senate's confirmation powers are nothing next to the President's appointment powers, but then let's run against her in 2012 even though we voted to confirm her. Wha? And Gonzales just doesn't want to piss off any judges right about now.
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The Cajun Boy
05/26/09

@kneetoe: Good points all.
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lawyergay
05/26/09

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Sotomayor grew up in a Bronx housing project, was Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Princeton (where abortion-hating Samuel A. Alito also went undergrad), and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

The notion that she is some kind of law-talkin' Rosie Perez who was dragged through Princeton, Yale, the New York D.A.'s office and the Second Circuit by affirmative action is just fucking stupid.

I watched a YouTube clip of John Yoo debating Kathleen Sullivan on William Rehnquist's "legacy" a couple of days ago, and if anyone should be worried about a lack of intellectual firepower, it's he.
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Cicada
05/26/09

@lawyergay: Nope, I don't believe it. There is no way that a person with both a vagina and brown skin can possible be qualified. All that "Princeton" crap is just a liberal cover-up for white guilt.

Is it bad that I was kind of hoping she was a law-talkin' Rosie Perez? Imagine what a great Lifetime movie it would make!
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lawyergay
05/27/09

@Cicada: I'll admit: I love the idea of Rosie Perez on our Supreme Court...but that's another fight, my friend...that's another fight.
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Mike Jahn
05/26/09

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Let's cut to the chase -- what does Sonia from the Block think of A-Rod's streak?
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I Love New Jersey
05/26/09

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Since nobody seems to want to say it, here goes:

The whole thing is political. It is just more of the whole to hell with content of character let's just focus on the color of skin which generates liberal guilt which gets bad people, like corrupt Chicago politicians, elected. If anyone calls them on this, they scream, "That's racist!"
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contradicto
05/26/09

@I Love New Jersey: Of course it's political. But I'd rather have Obama playing the politics than a conservative nutjob.
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Mediahohoho
05/26/09

@I Love New Jersey: Yeah. Except for the fact that she's qualified. Will Hispanics be excited by a person who shares a similar background and ancestry? Probably. In the same way Italians were about Alito, African Americans were about Thurgood Marshall and mediocre sexual compulsives were about Clarence Thomas. So what? This woman has all the credentials, and then some, so why not take the opportunity to add representation for a group of Americans not hitherto represented in the highest court. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the guy most responsible for electing your fabled "corrupt Chicago politician," was, in fact, the wannabe preppy fake Texan.

Also, yes, Supreme Court nominations do tend to be political.
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Cicada
05/26/09

@I Love New Jersey: *snarf*

The longer people like you think the reason Obama got elected is white guilt, the longer the Republicans will be lost in the wilderness.

Sally forth with your enlightened message and wake up the SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! None of the kool-aid drinkers get it like you do, you special so-and-so.
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htotheomo
05/26/09

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John Yoo very well be in jail the next time he posits something.
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Mediahohoho
05/26/09

@htotheomo: Or safely ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Helman
05/26/09

@htotheomo: Sadly Obama has all but said this won't happen.
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htotheomo
05/26/09

@Helman: There are three branches.
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htotheomo
05/26/09

@Helman: I forgot: SWAK.
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sarrible
05/26/09

@htotheomo: I wonder if John Yoo thinks he got his job in the Bush justice department because of affirmative action, or if he truly believes he was the best person for the job of writing hideous perversions of legal theory to justify destroying the Constitution. I mean, he was good at it. But was he the best?
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Mediahohoho
05/26/09

@sarrible: Hell no. There is merit in writing the lamest possible justification for breaking the law in an administration chock full of snakes. In the world of the Mayberry Machiavellis, John Yoo was Barney Fife!
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Santos L Halper
05/26/09

@htotheomo: I'm assuming you watched the Frontline program on the lead-up to the war, because that guy is one of the few that can be unarguably prosecuted. He just cold made shit up to pacify Bush/Cheney.
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htotheomo
05/26/09

@Santos L Halper: What did I write that wouldn't make you think I think John Yoo should be in jail?
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Mediahohoho
05/26/09

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Rush Limbaugh should really avoid using phrases like "go to the mat." Really.
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92BuickLeSabre
05/26/09

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My god...are these really the closest thing we have to "public intellectuals?"
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skippywasserman
05/27/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Nope. We have blogs and the interwebs and local access TeeVee, too.

On a more serious note, the publish or perish culture of American academia ensures an endless parade of ideologies and ideas from real public intellectuals. Check out the symposia and discussions at your local state or perhaps accessible private univiersities.
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92BuickLeSabre
05/27/09

@skippywasserman: Actually, I'm affiliated with one. I'm well familiar with those intellectuals. Unfortunately, the "public" largely isn't.
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Helman
05/26/09

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Shut up, pundits!
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Rumpelstilskin
05/01/09

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Of course I want to bring this down to the gutter, I've seen Souter many times in DC, mainly at the Antiquarian Book Fair -- he must collect rare books though I can't tell you what topic. But he exudes absolutely no gay vibe, despite the scurrilous gossip gushing from the Bush 2 White House that he was a homo. Pigs.

Liberal on the Supreme Court = gay, Jewish or senile.
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DaveCrabtree
05/01/09

@Rumpelstilskin: I think being gay would be one of the least abnormal things about him. He's a very odd duck, whether he's gay or straight. And I hope he's not gay, because I'd like the first gay Supreme (the first one we know about, anyway) to be someone with a more meaningful legacy than Souter.
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HiredGoons
05/01/09

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swooooon!
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SarahHeartburn
05/01/09

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President Cool. I love this man so much I cried watching this. I'm suffering from a form of PTSD after 8 years of being an American overseas and putting up daily with the pity, derision and hate from others and my own sense of shame. I really thought I'd spend the rest of my life apologizing to everyone for my country. I love my president. There. I said it.
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HiredGoons
05/01/09

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It's a good thing.
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fileunder
05/01/09

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He's enchanting.
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