Well, now, let’s not forget that Orrin had other priorities than actually questioning nominees in ‘92 and ‘97. I have no idea what those priorities may have been but I’m sure he can tell us.

After all, he’s a Republican Senator and I’m sure he wouldn’t lie to us.

Orrin wants to trade Jim Bunning for Evan Bayh and 2 dinners at the WH.

The party of no is in full swing. That’s really all anyone needs to know. They will fight Obama on anything and everything. Give them credit, though, at least they’re not sitting around keeping their powder dry. I wish the dems had that spirit these last 8 years.

Orrin still thinks he matters.

Is he afraid El Rushbo’s going to come over and sit on him?

Now THAT’S torture.

I think you’ve hit it exactly, Matt

They have to get the vapors and whine and fight. They need her to raise money for their war chests. Though frankly, the fact that Tim Kaine under-raised the RNC last month is beyond lame.

I hope someone asks her about her views on executive power. Anyone think that may come up?

and as I write it Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she wants to hear about that in the hearing. And she’s on the Judiciary com. now. Excellent.

Orrin Hatch, a statesman of great integrity.

Lets see. A Hispanic woman nominated to the Supreme Court by the first black president. Why would a LDS gopper have issues with that?

Orrin has issues. Lots of issues!

It’s time for the Republic Fascist Party to concoct crap about “Maria’ Sotomayor, as they did about Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

http://www.slate.com/id/2126491/

It’s devoutly to be hoped that the Guys Out of Plans oppose Sotomayor. If they do, they’ll lose even more independents, and especially Latinos.

Sotomayor should be a completely noncontroversial nominee. As some Guy Out of Plans said a few years ago, “Elections have consequences.” If Limbaugh and Company want to avoid judges like Sonia Sotomayor (and I don’t doubt for an instant that they don’t want judges like her) then they need to win elections.

Sotomayor is a mainstream judge: she’s hardly a firebrand liberal in the mold of Earl Warren Abe Fortas Felix Frankfurter wait a second. Have there ever been any firebrand liberal jurists on the Federal bench? I sure can’t think of any.

Now, I’ll concede that by comparison with Strip-Search Sammy, Sonia Sotomayor is a liberal judge. But Strip-Search is outside the mainstream of American jurisprudence, and so is his buddy Scalia.

I just want to add this:
Remarks such as these (see below)make me furious (and they should you, as well). These
are chauvinistic, neathanderthal-like utterances which have no place in our
society. If these “representatives” believe that this is acceptable language
to be used in this debate, then their fitness to continue serving should be
put under careful and very critical scrutiny. These men spew a particularly
distasteful form of malevoent and self-serving filth.

Subject: Think Progress: “Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue
influence from her own personal race, gender.’”

> Check out this post on Think Progress:
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/2009/…..or-inhofe/
>
> “Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue influence from her own
> personal race, gender.’”
>

For all his Villager cred, Orrin Hatch is an unprincipled hack.

He’s afraid of Rush, Richard Viguerie, and Jeff Sessions. Yeah, he’s just trying to carve out some rightwing room to oppose this extraordinary jurist.

I can’t wait until his natural successor Jason Chafitz takes over his seat. He is Hatch without the mind.
A true brain-donor.

How long before Utah becomes totally irrelevant—oh wait, does it matter?

Ironic then that Inhofe is opposing “Maria” on the basis of her own personal race and gender.

Oh, and by the way, that doesn’t even make fucking sense, her “own personal race.”

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