“It’s a massive teaching moment for America.

one can but hope.

(and yes – I know)

After sending out a bazillion lizard-brained fearmongering direct mail flyers and raising heaps of cash, NARAL proceeded to sit on their hands for the Alito fight.

They had to keep the powder dry, doncha know.

Because this one just has “sucker” written all over it.

Bingo!! We’ll see if they are stupid enough to follow the Glenn Beck/NRO/Huckabee lead.

“It’s true, there is no freedom without choice. Without choice, we are not free.”

Freedom of Choice for whom? The reptilian reich that wants in our minds, bedrooms and wants to totally control our live. To those I say “Eat Shit and Die you motherfuckers!” I have hated your ilk all my life and will go to my grave despising you and all those like you…

Just this old chief’s 2¢

It’s an immense opportunity to build the conservative movement and identify the troops out there,” said Richard A. Viguerie, a conservative fund-raiser.

Heheheheh indeedy. Sounds *exactly* like the Viguerie who was starting from scratch with his mailing lists in the early 80s. “Permanent Republican majority”? Pissed it all away, ye idiot bastards.

Wow, Jane — great analogy. The institutional DeeCee fearmongers on both sides are all about their own fundraising, perpetuating their own position in the “policy” constellation.

This could be a truly tragic nomination for the Senate GOP: hit hard from their rightwing if they don’t oppose, as direct mail and web-based wingnuts raise buckets of cash on Sotomayor’s “radicalism” while Hispanic Americans look on with horror as one of their own is demonized. All the while, the middle stands amazed at the lack of moral leadership and sensible governing.

Quite a coup from a political viewpoint. And we get a great Justice too!

I wonder if anyone on the right will have that kind of clarity this time around.

Samuel Johnson observed, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

A corollary to this might be, “When a man knows he is about to be foreclosed in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind so as not to be played as a ATM sucker by the Right.”

Say what you want about the wingnuts, I don’t think they’re gonna keep their powder dry for this one, or any other issue. They live for this stuff. Wingnut donors don’t have to worry about that sort of betrayal.

And just how much is Richard Viguerie’s mailing list and mail processing firm going to make off of this campaign?

Dum-dums.

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The GOP could have used this to raise a lot MORE money if they hadn’t already driven an overwhelming majority of Americans away from their party.

Likely in the same range as 4-F* Rush, now busily screeding about Judge Sotomayor’s “reverse racism.” Time to buy the popcorn, and stock in sheets…the KKKrowd’s ratcheting up the noise.

* 4-F = Fat F*** From Florida

John Yoo opposes Sotomayor, fwiw.

That is a very positive endorsement!

You got that right.

Thought I’d note it for hoots. In these threads it’s the best recommendation she could get!

I always enjoy asking the NARAL fund callers, if they have heard of Short-ride Lieberman.

Jane, you really ought to get over it. You have so much more to offer to the debate than bringing up old wounds that should have healed by now.

And just how much is Richard Viguerie’s mailing list and mail processing firm going to make off of this campaign?

with repub popularity at such stratospheric levels, I’m thinking he could break even.

If he has franking privileges.

elections have consequences.

As yes, let’s move forward by all means. Let’s not punish anyone whose behaved badly in the past. That might make them reconsider their ways in the future and we wouldn’t want that. /s

John Yoo opposes Sotomayor, fwiw.

thanks – answers the question “What Would Yoo Do?”

(answer – Whoo Cares?)

Doncha love it when folks drop by to tell Jane what she ought to do? I know she does…

Great stuff!

Yoo Whoo? *waving*

It depends on what you mean by “behaving badly”. The crimes of the Bushies are not the same as a policy dispute with NARAL.

To be sure. So are you suggesting some bad behavior, that’s merely damaging but not lethal, should not be punished?

Old wounds that have healed? Last I checked Alito’s still on the Court.

Count on it. It’s impossible to overestimate the stupidity of the rabid reich.

Because this one just has “sucker” written all over it.

or, in Limbaugh’s case, a lawly polyp.

No, I am saying that your definition of “bad behavior” may not be the same as mine on some issues. Gosh, I would think your incisive wisdom would understand this.

*spew!*

They’ve already sabotaged it from the get-go with their “Maria” comments. Way to win over the Hispanic community, gang.

So you think what NARAL did was just fine. Thanks. Now we know.

I’m off again. BBL.

Bringing this up from EPU land:

Just saw Jon Turley of all people weighing in on the lack of ”intellectual heft” in her opinions.

Now, I’ll give him credit (he says he actually read 30 or so of her opinions before commenting) for doing his homework, but this sounds like legal elitism.

How in the world can you graduate summa cum laude from Princeton, yet lack ”intellectual heft”? I’ll bet you can’t.

Just because her opinions don’t give high falutin’ lawyers the vapors from reading them doesn’t mean she’s not capable.

I couldn’t read the whole Yoo thing….he’s so despicable. My question, though, is “When did someone with a hispanic surname become someone of a different RACE?” All of my hispanic friends have birth certificates that refer to them as “caucasians.” Time to drop the race bating. If Yoo wants to slam her for her ethnicity, well, have at it and see where that takes the radical right.

Nooooooo!

Jane isn’t just bringing this up to be petty. She’s bringing it up because the same situation obtains: Activist groups use a fight they have no intention of actually fighting as a way to fill up their depleted bank accounts.

Turley’s apparently treating President Obama like he treated President Clinton ten years earlier.

John Yoo opposes Sotomayor, fwiw.

FWIW, indeed.

Yoo’s opinion vs. a steaming pile of doo.

Which is worth more?

I know, that’s a tough one.

Perhaps she just appears diminished when compared to Clarence “Intellectual Heft” Thomas.

amen PW !

recall how we all learned Human Rights Campaign and Sierra Club were guilty of similar wankery – eye opening to most of us here

Steaming pile of doo wins. It has a chance of becoming something useful: compost.

I like Turley, and like I said, he at least read her opinions before commenting.

I just think Obama saw this as being a twofer he couldn’t pass up.

WHOA!!

Speaking of the Supremes,check THIS out,folks!:

Source: New York Times -AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a long-standing ruling that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant’s lawyer was present, a move that will make it easier for prosecutors to interrogate suspects.

The high court, in a 5-4 ruling, overturned the 1986 Michigan v. Jackson ruling, which said police may not initiate questioning of a defendant who has a lawyer or has asked for one unless the attorney is present. The Michigan ruling applied even to defendants who agreed to talk to the authorities without their lawyers.
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The Obama administration had asked the court to overturn Michigan v. Jackson, disappointing civil rights and civil liberties groups that expected President Barack Obama to reverse the policies of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..Sup…

Perhaps she just appears diminished when compared to Clarence “Intellectual Heft, bottom third of his class, gives affirmative action a bad name” Thomas.

There, fixed it for you.

You will note I lobbed the ball nice and high for others to smash across the net.

You are welcome.

Just saw Jon Turley of all people weighing in on the lack of ”intellectual heft” in her opinions

Well, you have to understand she would be moving in a circle with intellectual heavyweights like Thomas and Alito.

Here is the Daily Howler’s take on Turley:

As we’ve often said about Turley—though only in love: If he likes a president, he wants him removed. If not, he wants him arrested.

Beat me to it. Actually I find none of the court conservatives that big a deal intellectually. Scalia mostly rants and makes stuff up but the quality of his arguments are really quite pathetic. Roberts is smoother, more researched but simply picks and chooses his arguments and citations to justify a decision he has already made on essentially political grounds. Kennedy is variable. Some of his stuff is godawful.

Hugh, what’s your take on why we’re getting hosed again at the pump.

I woke up to $2.65/ gal today; 20 cents more than this weekend, and that was 20 cents more than last week.

My view is that the speculators are revving up the engines again, (albeit with less available leverage than before) trying to make their last killing before new regs are put into place.

We are at 19 year highs in reserves, and demand has been trending down over a full year now.

Absolutely no legitimate reason for 10% per week price increases, imho.

hehehehehe! good one

I have written on this from time to time. Oil prices are being driven up by speculation in the futures market. This is an indication of the non-productive, even destructive uses the banks are making of the money they are getting either directly or indirectly from government policies. The futures market in oil remains attractive because the margins allow for leveraging ratios of 15-20 to one. In terms of traditional dynamics, there have been no wars or hurricanes and supply remains excellent.

With gasoline, there are a combination of factors: the beginning of the summer driving season and underutilization of refinery capacity. Despite this inventories are excellent. I think the short story here is that oil companies are hiding price increases behind the speculation in oil markets. Given the state of the economy and supply, there is no reason at all that gas should be over $2/gal.

didn’t read comments yet….

thanks for bringing up what naral didn’t do..again..

and i recall them saying one thing in a whopper way then doing the total opposite. and denying that is what they were doing, then gathering more money and doing it again..
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sttp–2.65 here, too, usually yours is cheaper. was 2.09 just a few weeks ago.

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and, HOW many conservatives are on the court? how many moderates? how many liberals? oh, you can’t be a liberal and be a judge. i forgot.

i completely don’t understand the argument to justify no liberals. we have the far right wing on the court, why no far-left wing, let alone a ‘left’ anything? why is this ok?
why are they not using that argumenbt in their points? she’s not even a liberal!!!

… and of once being useful …