Comments on: “Statesman” Orrin Hatch: I’m a Cynical Horse-Trader, So Don’t Hold My Sotomayor Vote Against Me http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:53:53 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TheLurkingMod http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907162 TheLurkingMod Tue, 26 May 2009 23:39:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907162 <p>Scarecrow promoted!<br /><a href="http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/5469" rel="nofollow">David Brooks Weeps/Shills for America’s Tortured Corporate Titans</a></p> Scarecrow promoted!
David Brooks Weeps/Shills for America’s Tortured Corporate Titans

]]> By: puravida http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907161 puravida Tue, 26 May 2009 23:38:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907161 <p>Ironic then that Inhofe is opposing “Maria” on the basis of her own personal race and gender.</p> <p>Oh, and by the way, that doesn’t even make fucking sense, her “own personal race.”</p> 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.”

]]> By: RevDeb http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907160 RevDeb Tue, 26 May 2009 23:29:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907160 <p>How long before Utah becomes totally irrelevant—oh wait, does it matter?</p> How long before Utah becomes totally irrelevant—oh wait, does it matter?

]]> By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907159 newtonusr Tue, 26 May 2009 23:28:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907159 <p>I can’t wait until his natural successor <a href="http://www.wikiality.com/Jason_Chaffetz" rel="nofollow">Jason Chafitz</a> takes over his seat. He is Hatch without the mind.<br /> A true brain-donor.</p> I can’t wait until his natural successor Jason Chafitz takes over his seat. He is Hatch without the mind.
A true brain-donor.

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907158 Teddy Partridge Tue, 26 May 2009 23:24:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907158 <p>For all his Villager cred, Orrin Hatch is an unprincipled hack.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: HIVANH http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907157 HIVANH Tue, 26 May 2009 23:19:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907157 <p>I just want to add this:<br /> Remarks such as these (see below)make me furious (and they should you, as well). These<br /> are chauvinistic, neathanderthal-like utterances which have no place in our<br /> society. If these “representatives” believe that this is acceptable language<br /> to be used in this debate, then their fitness to continue serving should be<br /> put under careful and very critical scrutiny. These men spew a particularly<br /> distasteful form of malevoent and self-serving filth.</p> <p>Subject: Think Progress: “Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue<br /> influence from her own personal race, gender.’”</p> <p>> Check out this post on Think Progress:<br /> ><br /> > <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/sotomayor-inhofe/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/2009/.....or-inhofe/</a><br /> ><br /> > “Inhofe worries that Sotomayor may allow ‘undue influence from her own<br /> > personal race, gender.’”<br /> ></p> 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.’”
>

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907156 BargainCountertenor Tue, 26 May 2009 23:11:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907156 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Sotomayor is a mainstream judge: she’s hardly a firebrand liberal in the mold of <strike>Earl Warren Abe Fortas Felix Frankfurter</strike> wait a second. Have there ever been any firebrand liberal jurists on the Federal bench? I sure can’t think of any.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: whataretheysmoking http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907155 whataretheysmoking Tue, 26 May 2009 23:10:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907155 <p>It’s time for the Republic Fascist Party to concoct crap about “Maria’ Sotomayor, as they did about Ruth Bader Ginsberg.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2126491/" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/id/2126491/</a></p> 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/

]]> By: RevDeb http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907153 RevDeb Tue, 26 May 2009 23:05:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907153 <p>Orrin has issues. Lots of issues!</p> Orrin has issues. Lots of issues!

]]> By: marymccurnin http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907152 marymccurnin Tue, 26 May 2009 23:04:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/statesman-orrin-hatch-im-a-cynical-horse-trader-so-dont-hold-my-sotomayor-vote-against-me/#comment-1907152 <p>Lets see. A Hispanic woman nominated to the Supreme Court by the first black president. Why would a LDS gopper have issues with that?</p> Lets see. A Hispanic woman nominated to the Supreme Court by the first black president. Why would a LDS gopper have issues with that?

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