They just can’t help themselves.
Unbelievably, Buchanan compared Sotomayor to Harriet Miers, President Bush’s personal attorney who was, in fact, not at all qualified to be a Supreme Court justice. Ever notice it’s the Republicans whose "affirmative action" picks aren’t qualified (as in Miers and Clarence Thomas)?
Where do I begin? First of all, if Republicans are going to be tin-eared enough to attack Sotomayor on her intelligence and qualifications, they are going to wind up an even tinier minority party than they are now. Acting as though Obama had to lower his standards to appoint the first Hispanic justice is offensive to more than just Hispanics; it exposes a profound prejudice and lack of knowledge about the vast talent pool in our country. Certainly Sotomayor will face tough questions on her judicial philosophy from liberals and conservatives, and she should, but to insinuate she’s merely an affirmative action pick is wrong and repellent.
And no one does repellent like the GOP.



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Olbermann and Maddow….smacking the right wing with a huge fly swatter! Love it.
smacking the right wing with a huge fly swatter!
really don’t need a big one. Those fuckers are pretty hard to miss.
LOL Yes, their big swollen egotistical heads can be seen by satellite. I forgot!
Buchanan’s brain drive is stuck in ’spew’.
…their big swollen egotistical heads…
ewww.
splatter stains.
Thinking about how the reThugs are catering to their ever-shrinking base on this appointment just reminded me of Himmler, Goebbels and Bormann sparring it out in the bunker over who would take the mantle from Hitler when he passed on.
This morning on MSNBC right out of the gate Joe Scarborough made the claim that Sen. Dick Durbin would have sent Rosa Parks to the back of the bus if Durbin had been the bus driver back then. What the hell! Why did Joe say this? Because Durbin said he would not help Burris in 2010 if he’s running for ‘re-election’. So, this makes Durbin a racist? I think Joe is the racist and is just projecting this morning!
Gawd I hate the republican party. So sick of their members and their tactics.
Goebbels apperently decided it wouldn’t be him, because in the bunker he took himself, his wife and his children to the Fatherland in the Sky.
A precedent?
Yeppurs. The Rethugs have taken my little comment from yesterday to heart. The new Party of No slogan: Be as dumb as you can be.
give me three rachel maddow’s and i could rule the world.
Morning News…AZ
175,000 less smokers they suspect partly due to smoking restriction laws where you cannot smoke within 25 ft of buildings….
We still have 6 million people who are uninsured
Of course they spent more time on the rattlesnake who was eating a rat up on Camelback Mt…..
(((katymine)))
READY, FIRE, AIM
Just need the shooters to arrange themselves in a circular formation.
Rachael:
I personally don’t think it’s about political capital per se.
It’s an AIPAC-orchestrated attempt to change the subject away from torture and war crimes (for which they are partially culpable – see Doug Feith, etc.).
She’s just the “shiny object du jour” that the Fascists needed to justify removing the torture debate from the headlines. Next, they’ll invent another false terror threat, or order-up a school shooting spree or whatever else it takes to manipulate the media away from the REAL NEWS that has and will define our country.
The media is completely controlled.
Don’t know how long its been on the blog roll but it’s the first time I’ve noticed gorillas guides. Outstanding. War supporting trolls beware. You’ll get much more than you bargained for.
I prefer “loathsome” to “repellent,” but otherwise Rachel Maddow nails it. Painting Sotomayor as an affirmative action pick is plainly wrong given her long list of academic and professional accomplishments. It is also offensive to women and Hispanics, and it is also a political strategy that will gratuitously push away independents and those who are as yet undecided from the GOP in order to pander to a base that has no place else to go.
R.I.P. GOP. R.I.P.
Sonia Sotomayor:: Jose Acasuso :
(In my defense, the guy is playing very well.)
The media industry is in a bad way… Clear channel has laid off lots of people but what they are doing is cutting their hours so they do not qualify for benefits…. double savings….
Parts of the media are literally imploding on themselves……. Just ESPN is cutting shows and staff by 20%.
Whoa! Another break! May not be Roger’s day today.
Thanks. I’ve had the feeling ever since Tuesday’s announcement that the Sotomayor dustup was being used to push real news out of the news cycle. I’ve had the feeling that we were being misdirected by what you appropriately call the “shiny object du jour.” AIPAC, however, has not been so all that high on my list of suspects.
Seems to me that the GOP is moving from being “The Party of No!” to becoming “The Party of Irrelevant.”
And, the notion of what a “Conservative” is has imerged from all the talk and no action (we’ve seen mostly distructive action) on fiscal responsibility, privacy and foreign entangements, to mean “racist,” slow to recognize anyone as being equal to a white guy, and irrelevant to the needs of the American public.
So according to the GOP the only people who got where they are by their own bootstraps…. That everyone else got ahead due to special advantages.
Just McCain who said that women need more education to get ahead…. lets see… I have a diploma of nursing and two BS degrees in Software Engineering and Business…. what more education do I need?
I suspect that she meant “repugnant” and simply misspoke.
A degree from Liberty University that makes you a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male.
Probably something from Liberty U. would be handy… [gag]
It would appear that I owe you a beverage of your choice!
Katymine,
He meant more education than *men*. Oh wait…