Republicans Have Nothing To Win In Fighting Sotomayor Appointment

With Obama’s announcement today it seems as though Republicans are gearing up for a big fight against Sotomayor’s appointment. What I’m wondering is…why?
Granted, the problems with Sotomayor should be pointed out. Obama’s flawed judgment in picking her should be criticized. The media’s double standards in covering the appointment process should be exposed. But ultimately, Obama’s the President and Sotomayor is his pick. And unless something serious in her background comes out (like, uh, maybe unpaid taxes) bring her nomination to an up or down vote.
And, really, what’s to be won in opposing Sotomayor? Again, barring any unforeseen scandals, she’s going to be appointed. And her addition to the Supreme Court won’t change much. She’s a liberal replacing a liberal.
Republicans have bigger fish to fry right now. While the battle over Sotomayor’s appointment would be dominating the news (if it happened), Obama would continue to pursue things like nationalized health care and cap and trade. Policies that portend a lot worse things for America than Sotomayor’s appointment.
As I write this, news is breaking that North Korea may have just test-fired another missile.
I say appoint Sotomayor as quickly as possible and keep the heat on Obama in other areas.

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  • http://Array Hannitized

    You like to get whats left over, don’t you?

    Hahaha. What’s left over? Meh.

    Usually, exes go on the work out plan, take yoga and get way hotter once they have separated. There’s nothing wrong with ex’s.

    I know you hate women and all, but, really. You need to give them a break.

    You just posted right her on this blog that you go for women that were recently with other men.

    All women past 27 are someone’s ex. I don’t really see the big deal. If you wanna make something of it, have at it.

    I think you have, and that’s why you hate the military. You blame the military for disease, when it is your own irresponsible behaviour that gave you herpes.

    You are reduced to making things up, because you can’t compete. Go ahead an believe what you want. I really don’t care. It wont change the reality.

  • Onslaught

    Why on earth should she be treated any more gently than Miguel Estrada was?

    Because of the eleventh commandment of the new castrate that is the moderate republican “Thou shalt only speak ill of fellow republicans”

  • Hannitized

    Not only is she a bigot and a sexist, but she firmly believes that she should use the Court to make policy.

    If Republicans are too cowardly to oppose this woman with everything they’ve got, they stand for nothing.

    I think you are missing the point R180.

    Rob is suggesting that going after her is going to hurt you a lot more than not.

    I tend to think if there is a valid reason, go for it. But if the valid reason (in your mind) is what you have described above……..then Rob is exactly right.

    Good luck selling, sexist, racist bigot out there. It ain’t going to help ya.

    Most intelligent people understand that who you are, shapes how you view things. She is not saying her race is superior to others. She is saying as a woman and latina, that she has a view that is different and perhaps some cases better prepared to look at them.

    I think that is a very hard argument to make, convincingly, but I don’t know what example she was referring to. I would like to know.

  • Bat One

    Perhaps you could enumerate a few of those cases for us if you really feel that she is incompetent.

    Carrick,

    I’ve got bigger fish to fry today.

    As far as the comments about her looks, personally I find that offensive and wish you would lay off it. If she were a man, would you be making that comment?

    Not unless I was gay! Look… I’m sorry that you are offended, but not so much so that I would retract my remarks to satisfy your indignation. I don’t subscribe to the notion that being a conservative means I’m too good to get my hands dirty. You may object to the manner in which an Ann Coulter expresses her opinions, but that doesn’t invalidate her point. And you know it.

    Besides, If you stopped to take indignant note of every comment here you found objectionable, you’d never have time to fry any fish at all!

  • carrick

    Bob:

    Who will be the worker bee and find out how many majority decisions she sided with and compare that number with the 3 overturned by the SCOTUS?

    How about starting with the 3 cases and the grounds on which they were overturned? I’d do it myself but have much bigger fish to fry today.

  • carrick

    Bat One:

    Besides, with questions regarding unwanted sexual advances out of the way, perhaps we can focus on Judge Sotomayor’s 60% reversal rate by the US Supreme Court.

    She might be a bad nominee and should be thoroughly scrutinized, but as far as I can tell very few of her decisions were reversed based on her arguing bad law.

    Perhaps you could enumerate a few of those cases for us if you really feel that she is incompetent.

    As far as the comments about her looks, personally I find that offensive and wish you would lay off it. If she were a man, would you be making that comment?

  • Mickey

    han-jocb mistakes his left hand and a Penthouse mag for hot babes.

    Keep in mind that liberalism is a mental disease.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I wouldn’t mount a filibuster, but you’re shirking your duties not to bring up stuff in her public record.

    I really want to grill her over her racist/sexist comments.

  • sayanything-5371

    I have dated many ex wives. I hope for your sake she isn’t one of the many i meet

    You like to get whats left over, don’t you?

    And don’t let your wife travel alone with girlfriends. Many of them come to Hawaii, chasing guys like us.

    I don’t even know what sloppy seconds is

    Sure you do. You just posted right her on this blog that you go for women that were recently with other men.

    I never had any STD, I never paid for sex

    I think you have, and that’s why you hate the military. You blame the military for disease, when it is your own irresponsible behaviour that gave you herpes.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Good job B O.

    I always knew we could count on you to stay klassy.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    From the Moonie Rag:

    Mr. Gibbs dismissed questions about Judge Sotomayor’s reversal rate, saying she wrote 380 majority opinions during her 11 years on the appeals court. Of those 380 opinions, the Supreme Court heard five of the cases and overturned her on three.

    0.78% of her appeals court rulings.

    Ok, now what?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Although the information on Sonia Sotomayor is still coming in, she seems to be like a certain group of students, lawyers and even judges I have run across (and unfortunately, not with my Dodge Dakota)

    These are the type of law students, primarily female, who have bought into the Marxist-Feminist line of BS hook, line and sinker. These types, like the ALIENS creatures, don’t have blood running in their veins, but acid. They eat, sleep and breath hatred. Hatred primarily of men and American society in general. The Constitution comes in handy once in awhile, when they can mischaracterize it and twist it around to their statist purposes, but for the most part it is a toss-up as to whether they are simply ignorant of its provisions or hold it in great contempt.

    These are the sort of lawyers, that when you see a document filed with them, has to be handled with tongs due to the heat radiating off it, normally riven with lies to gain advantage. If you have even a decent judge, it can work to your advantage if you can expose those lies.

    Judges don’t like being lied to.

    In a real serious and repeated case, they might even get sanctioned, but oddly enough, most of them sail on through life, fucking up the court system and fucking people over with their lies, and doing so while making a decent living.

    Such is the number of leftards in places of influence that sometimes these complete and utter legal idiots become judge.

    They are really no so much judges as saboteurs to the US legal system. Law and precedent mean nothing to them. They do what the hell they want to do, Constitution and lesser laws be damned.

    Someone like this on the Supremes will be like a series of nuke strikes on the US. Even nuke strikes’ damage eventually dissipates — but the damage even of a single horrendous ruling can last forever.

  • Bat One

    At least with Sonia Sotomayor, judging from the pictures, we’re unlikely to be dealing with questions of unwanted sexual advances, real or imaginary, as was the case with Clarence Thomas’s confirmation circus.

  • Bat One

    What would you know about classy?

    Besides, with questions regarding unwanted sexual advances out of the way, perhaps we can focus on Judge Sotomayor’s 60% reversal rate by the US Supreme Court.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    I’m not saying don’t criticize her at all. I’m just saying that she’s not worth anything extraordinary, and that we’ve got bigger fish to fry.

    Good GOD man, don’t you realize the damage someone on the SCOTUS can do????

    .

    Do we, or do we not, follow the advice — of the galactically stupid??

    – Tom Cruise, A Few Good Men

    .

    By the way, funny that Mr. Pink Swastika is accusing people of huffing sharpies.

    Good one Rob!

    Ya got me!

    I just missed all that part about how the historical research was incorrect and your offer of more reliable information, but if it makes you feel better just go ahead and besmirch my character instead.

    Damn, you’re good.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Rob,
    Do you just toss out retarded suggestions for the GOP strategery–calculated to inflict the greatest amount of self-damage–in order to piss us off and therefor generate hit-counts, or have you just been huffing Sharpies again?

    I must agree.

    Why not fight an awful candidate? It’s not like Obama will actually address N. Korea or stop pushing for cap and trade.

  • sayanything-5371

    Bullshit. She should be dragged through the mud and kicked and beaten to expose her as the blatant racist, partisan liberal activist POS she is. Rolling over for every liberal issue, appointment and bill is a loser strategy.

  • Stewartized

    “Let the hate flow through you. Give in completely to the dark side.” For reference see: Justice Thomas, almost Justice Bork. Reference in dictionary “projection”. Also “stupid post”.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Gibbs said she wrote 380 decisions.

    Who will be the worker bee and find out how many majority decisions she sided with and compare that number with the 3 overturned by the SCOTUS?

    B O, I’m not enjoining anyone to stay classy.

    Stay klassy B O.

  • robert108

    Not only is she a bigot and a sexist, but she firmly believes that she should use the Court to make policy. She wants to give Obama the third Branch of our govt.
    Not good, not good at all.
    If Republicans are too cowardly to oppose this woman with everything they’ve got, they stand for nothing.

  • Hannitized

    So how long have you measured your manhood by the number of girls you bagged? The rest of us grown-ups left that yardstick back in high school. We moved on to character, family, career. But hey you always got that live in girlfriend you posted a picture of, right? Who did she leave you for, by the way?

    I have never attacked you and your personal choices in this regard, HG. But if you so choose to enter, so you too shall receive.

    As I have said, when women leave their mopey, boring boyfriends, they seek guys like me. Who haven’t convinced themselves that boring is grown up.

    I don’t measure my manhood by how many women I happen to date. I am just stating it for fact, because if I didn’t guys like Move would try and play the Peewee Herman thing, like he did with Sparkie, who never talks about women.

    Face it, you guys chop liberals down any cheap, sordid way you can. I just enjoy rubbing in the faces of dweebs who keep trying to pretend they are not. Look at Move_Zig man.

    And you seriously don’t think i have a career? Please. I’m single, successful and active and look young. Women go for that. Sue me.

    As far as my 8 year goes, well, who did she leave me for? Her singing career. Although we tried to make it work for 1-1/2 years while she toured, it was damned near impossible to work out as life changed us.

    But, I did go check out her shows last July, and we hung out just like the old times…with her and her dancer friends. She was living with a new guy, had her doubts and was considering the old spark, but we have changed. I could never live in Vegas and she could never give up her singing career. So she got married 9 years later and about 4 months after I visited her. Good for her.

    Go ahead and mock me some more HG. I certainly congratulated you for being lucky, didn’t I?

  • Hannitized

    Willhuntforfood says:

    I’ve been married for over 20 years, to the same woman, logic fail IDIOT. I have 4 kids.

    Well, enjoy it while it lasts. I hope you aren’t as much of a douche in real life as you are on a blog. And I certainly hope you have better taste than you display with your avatar. That’s sort of weird, dude.

    I have dated many ex wives. I hope for your sake she isn’t one of the many i meet, who are bored shitless with their mopey, chubby husband who are about as exciting and exhilarating as a tub of mayonnaise.

    And don’t let your wife travel alone with girlfriends. Many of them come to Hawaii, chasing guys like us. It’s hard to screen them, because they will lie about their status. That’s not a threat, that’s a warning.

    You have …….diseased whores, and ………a surfboard.

    Actually I have 10 surfboards. In Hawaii, you need a “quiver”, my friend. You need something for small, medium, hollow, big and REALLY big waves.

    And please. The opportunities for successful single men in Hawaii are pretty substantial. If I posted pics, you wouldn’t believe.

  • Hannitized

    When I want wisdom it won’t be from an IDIOT

    Don’t give yourself any advice then. You are in quite a conundrum.

    …like you who boasted right here on this blog that you had sex with two diseased whores that you knew were diseased.

    I never paid for sex. Additionally, are you claiming all men in the world who fall in love with a woman, who unfortunately had caught some STD from her military boyfriend, are idiots because they use protection and educate themselves on how to engage sexually?

    You are such a tool.

    I have never had an STD, and I have had and will have more women than you will…ever. And I’m talkin hot too. But, you keep believin you got it goin on.

  • Bat One

    I dunno, Bob. You enjoining some else – anyone else – to stay classy. That’s more than a little ironic.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    WHFF: When I want wisdom it won’t be from an IDIOT

    Hey Will, did you catch this gem from the thread on the girl who auctioned her virginity off and losing 50 percent of the proceeds to German taxes? Hair-Gel Boy weighed in:

    Really, I don’t understand why prostitution is illegal.

    HGB: It is legal, pretty much. It’s called……dating.

    Har! Har! Har!

    So HGB takes it literally when the gils on the corner in miniskirts and tube-tops call out to him as he drives by:

    Hey Honey, wanna go on a date? Me so horny.

  • sayanything-5371

    I have never had an STD, and I have had and will have more women than you will…ever. And I’m talkin hot too

    Guys that get it don’t brag about it. You are diseased and it has effected your brain. I don’t feel a need to try and impress total strangers with my sexual exploits as you conceive of sex to be. You knowingly had sex with two different diseased whores on two different occasions. Then you boasted about it on this blog. LOL!!!!!!!!!

    Damn, are you STUPID!

  • sayanything-5371

    Women leave guys like you……and they seek out guys like me. Sorry…thems the way it is kid.

    I’ve been married for over 20 years, to the same woman, logic fail IDIOT. I have 4 kids.

    You have …….diseased whores, and ………a surfboard.

    LOL!!!!!!!!!

    Damn, you are STUPID!

  • Mickey

    She is more like obama himself, not that smart and kind of a thug. She has an inflated opinion of herself, and her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue. Just like our flip flopping president she’s not shy or apologetic about who she is.

    Another clinical hubristic egomaniac wannabe a dictator obama clone.

  • sayanything-5371

    herpes hanjob wrote:

    I have dated many ex wives. I hope for your sake she isn’t one of the many i meet, who are bored shitless with their mopey, chubby husband who are about as exciting and exhilarating as a tub of mayonnaise.
    And don’t let your wife travel alone with girlfriends. Many of them come to Hawaii, chasing guys like us. It’s hard to screen them, because they will lie about their status. That’s not a threat, that’s a warning.

    So, not only do you by your own boasting on this blog, admit that you had sex with 2 different diseased whores, you also now boast that you make a habit of taking sloppy seconds. Its no wonder you caught herpes from some whore and now blame that on the military because she came your way as a sloppy second from some service guy.

    That’s why you are herpes carrier, because you are not very discriminating in your partners. Now, you have the IDIOCY to brag about it.

    Damn, you are so STUPID!

  • sayanything-5371

    Really, I don’t understand why prostitution is illegal.
    HGB: It is legal, pretty much. It’s called……dating.

    Zig, it must be confusing for the diseased surfer, not to know the difference between a date and a whore. Its all the same to him. I’ve never known anyone who would knowingly have sex with a diseased whore, let alone brag about it.

    He blames the fact that he got herpes on the military because he got it from some other dude by proxy from his whores.

    Damn, hanjob is STUPID!

  • Hannitized

    Bullshit. She should be dragged through the mud and kicked and beaten to expose her as the blatant racist, partisan liberal activist POS she is. - Willhuntforfood

    God what an uneducated douche-bag.

  • sayanything-5371

    Yes, let the hate flow through you. Give in completely to the dark side.

    The voice of experience speaks.

  • Bat One

    facts don’t matter bob. its just slander.

    This from the slanderous twerp who labeled former Vice President Dick Cheney “a pile of dog shit”??? Pretty damn sanctimonious of you, Sparkie. Do they not teach consistent application of principle at philosophy school any more? Or is it the principle part you’re having trouble with?

  • Hannitized

    Willhuntforfood says:

    S

    o, not only do you by your own boasting on this blog, admit that you had sex with 2 different diseased whores, you also now boast that you make a habit of taking sloppy seconds.

    Sloppy seconds? Is that what a mature person says? Hey look pal, you are the guy that has to make shit up in order to compete against me.

    I never had any STD, I never paid for sex, I don’t even know what sloppy seconds is, but apparently you do.

    All I am saying is guys like me, who get it regularly from all sort of amazingly hot and exotic women sometimes have to be on guard when we slouch it on the mainland by running into women who have caught their STDs from their former military boyfriends who pay for sex in third world countries and bring it back to the US.

    So the day your wife leaves you. You’ll be sweatin to see if she bought a ticket to Hawaii.

  • http://tarheelred.wordpress.com/ pino

    Granted, the problems with Sotomayor should be pointed out.

    Look, Libs nominate Libs; Cons do the same with Cons. Also, lets not forget that we have the irony of ironies in that a Bush Sr. appointee would be replacing a Bush Sr appointee.

    We should argue the downsides of this pick, if only to give weight should The Blessed Leader get to pick another.

  • sayanything-5371

    You are da bomb WHFF.

    When I want wisdom it won’t be from an IDIOT like you who boasted right here on this blog that you had sex with two diseased whores that you knew were diseased. You have already proven your stupidity beyond all doubt.

  • robert108

    Little H is a perfect example of the truth that those who brag about it, don’t do it. He does have a rich fantasy life, though.

  • Buzz

    Yes, let the hate flow through you. Give in completely to the dark side.

  • robert108

    Little H: As usual, you miss the point, having no substance and being forced to try to be popular, but her own words convict her on all three counts.
    At any rate, we can’t just stand by and watch Bungler Obama savage the Constitution with people like her.
    I go for the principle, not the fluffy popularity stuff.
    We need to give the American people a strong contrast, so we have to stand up for American values, since the far left wing extremist Dems don’t stand for anything America represents.

  • HG

    Women leave guys like you……and they seek out guys like me.

    Hannitized,

    So how long have you measured your manhood by the number of girls you bagged? The rest of us grown-ups left that yardstick back in high school. We moved on to character, family, career. But hey you always got that live in girlfriend you posted a picture of, right? Who did she leave you for, by the way?

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Rob,

    Publicizing Sotomayor’s record will only happen if there is a prolonged fight in the Senate. By the words of her own mouth an pen she’s a racist, a sexist, and a judicial activist. She has two one paragraph opinions to her discredit which can be accurately restated as “I say so.”

    Why on earth should she be treated any more gently than Miguel Estrada was?

  • Hannitized

    Guys that get it don’t brag about it.

    I don’t brag about it in real life….i just do it bro. You don’t have women crawling on you and asking if you were doing the same thing the night before with others….do ya? I can’t help it brother….some guys have it…some…well.

    You can keep telling me guys who get it don’t brag…but this one is. And it’s only a damned blog. What do I care?

    I don’t feel a need to try and impress total strangers with my sexual exploits as you conceive of sex to be.

    Because you couldn’t. You’ve got nothing to say.

    You knowingly had sex with two different diseased whores on two different occasions. Then you boasted about it on this blog. LOL!!!!!!!!!

    I wasn’t boasting. I used it as a point of reference that many normal people can have STD’s. The two I mentioned were not whores, friend. They were probably your sisters and ex girlfriends.

    Women leave guys like you……and they seek out guys like me. Sorry…thems the way it is kid.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Judge Sotomayor’s belief is that a “Latina woman” is by definition a superior judge to a “white male” because she has had more “richness” in her struggle. The danger inherent in this judicial view is that the law isn’t what the Constitution says but whatever the judge in the “richness” of her experience comes to believe it should be.

  • docdave

    I avidly disagree. The Republicans will lose the respect of many independents and conservatives is they do not thoroughly vet this very liberal activist candidate.

  • TheTodd

    I think that, in all likelihood, Sonia Sotomayor will have about as much impact on public policy as John Marshall Harlan II. Comments like:

    Not only is she a bigot and a sexist, but she firmly believes that she should use the Court to make policy. She wants to give Obama the third Branch of our govt.
    Not good, not good at all.

    are just insane. The odds that something she writes could have a significant impact on our daily lives is virtually zero.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Rob,

    Do you just toss out retarded suggestions for the GOP strategery — calculated to inflict the greatest amount of self-damage — in order to piss us off and therefor generate hit-counts, or have you just been huffing Sharpies again?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    The gop should go “all in” on this nominee and everything, and I mean everything, President Obama does. Why not just call her too ugly and be done with it?

    Launching an all out, no smear barred, attack on everything Obama is just what the doctor ordered.

    It will certainly boost the gop standing among the public. Everyone knows how just how much the public enjoys endless repetitive baseless accusations when they are struggling though the bush recession, two wars and a year away from the next election. Especially after going through the longest campaign season the world has ever seen. Maybe the Great gop Head could say something on his radio show that all gop’s everywhere could repeat over and over and over. That’s the ticket!

    The gop really needs to bump up its Obama is Socialistical Fascistical Communistical gonna Steal yer guns attack line. Boy oh boy that one is a sure fire winner! Hey? Whatever happened to the Obama is a Kenyan Marxist phalanx? I sure do miss those fellers.

    So I say: Go for the bottom of the barrel, gop!
    Why not? All your good friends are already there.

    Stay Klassy gop.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Oooohh…Someone has been reading the Moonie Rag this morning.

    So that amounts to approximately what? 0.3% of the decisions made during her carrier?

    Ok, now what?

    Stay klassy B O.

  • HG

    Granted, the problems with Sotomayor should be pointed out.

    Rob,

    This is why we should fight. Without a fight, little to no attention will be brought to these problems. She will be confirmed, the dems have the votes. But her confirmation can either make her problems go away, or ignite this process with much needed debate on these fronts. Debates the democrats can’t very well win.

  • Hannitized

    Bullshit. She should be dragged through the mud and kicked and beaten to expose her as the blatant racist, partisan liberal activist POS she is.

    Rational. Thought provoking and well articulated.

    You are da bomb WHFF.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Do you just toss out retarded suggestions for the GOP strategery–calculated to inflict the greatest amount of self-damage–in order to piss us off and therefor generate hit-counts, or have you just been huffing Sharpies again?

    I’m not saying don’t criticize her at all. I’m just saying that she’s not worth anything extraordinary, and that we’ve got bigger fish to fry.

    By the way, funny that Mr. Pink Swastika is accusing people of huffing sharpies.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    If we have any principles, we will let the whole entire truth be made known and keep making it known. That the Republicans are not in any position now to do anything but be seen as Dino’s favorite nonsense about sour grapes is not an issue. It’s a matter of we told you so later on. If we go along with it now in cynicism, the public will know about it. Principle requires encouraging the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a brave face.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    facts don’t matter bob. its just slander. those opinions are written with notes from other judges as well.

    plus, the supremes don’t hear things they believe to be uunproblematic.

    why would they sppend all their time saying yes to things they agree with?

    the claim against sotomayor is asinine it what it suggests; and how it is expressed, simply and in isolation of appropriate details; despite it’s approximation of a fact.

    more meme-based idiocy from the sycophants

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