 Yes! Tell them to STFU!! |
White House to Sonia Sotomayor critics: Be ‘careful’ – Alexander Burns and Josh Gerstein – POLITICO.com — FYI. The thought police are wanting you to shut up, or else.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a pointed warning to opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination Wednesday, urging critics to measure their words carefully during a politically charged confirmation debate.
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.
He was replying to a question from CBS’s Chip Reid about a blog post by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accusing Sotomayor of imposing identity politics on the bench and declaring: “A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. A Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”
brm — Don’t pretend you’ve read the speech.
Look at the two paragraphs. She quite clearly is talking about the subject of understanding race and gender in America, not “deciding cases” in general.
She did not suddenly lurch into non sequitur, as you and conservatives would have us believe, and suddenly abandon the subject she was talking about.
I like how she holds the view that the Bill of Rights only applies to D.C. and not the States. A dangerous fruitcake.
SS has a wealth of opinions ans speeches she will present to the senate. Years worth. To cherry-pick one paragraph from so long ago doesn’t even begin yo describe the breadth of any person, it’s simple political maneuvering.
Yes, she said it, and there are current justices who have said the same thing. BFD. All objective accounts are that her positions are centrist. The wingnuts are wrong, standing in a puddle of wrong, which is getting deeper and deeper.
When you get another republican president, you can litmus the crap out of him and appoint whomever you wish. In the meantime, the people we elected to the senate will make the right choice.
Okay John, she officially a nut job:
The franchise for felons,
Sotomayor would let prisoners vote
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/the-franchise-for-felons/
You know the funny part is that, outside issues of race, she’s actually pretty centrist. Maybe even (as most Puerto Ricans are – although I can only speak of Island-born Puerto Ricans and not first genners) right-of-center.
Of course, that’s not stopping the Repubs from screaming their lungs out.
Just seems kinda funny to me.
Bush inserted two Christian Taliban into the Supreme Court. I’m unhappy that Chelsea Clinton was not chosen.
“I’m unhappy that Chelsea Clinton was not chosen.”
Fuck Chelsea, man. I wanted Bubba himself.
#44, Cow-Patty,
Scraping the barrel again. The Washington Times Editorial as a reference source. Ya, right.
To the point though, why not allow prisoner’s the right to vote? Many countries already do and I’m happy to say none of them have disappeared into a fiery pit. Then again, most of those countries provide far more support and help to those incarcerated than does the US and respectfully have much lower rates of recidivism.
People need to watch what they say.
#49, Lyin’ Mike
Good point. Which is how you ended up with that moniker.
This quote from an item on the subject in Huffpo says it all:
#51 Sounds like what White liberals did with Clarence Thomas & Alberto Gonzales…
# 47 Alex said,”I wanted Bubba himself.”
Sheesh! He couldn’t keep the girl’s blue dress clean. What would he do with black robes?
When Bush nominated, Dems went on the attack. Now O’Bama nominates, the Reps get set for battle. You know what that’s called?
Business as usual.
#31 – touche’
#38 Fusion:
The difference is that Alito didn’t say “better” when comparing his judgment to that of someone of a different race and gender.
That’s the BIG difference.
#41 Wretched Gnu:
I did read the speech. I know that the subject of the talk wasn’t deciding cases. But she was talking about deciding cases when she spat out this line.
Did you read it? Did you notice that she talks about O’Connor’s assertion that:
“a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in DECIDING CASES”
and then in the same breath says that she believes she’ll more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white man?
She is CLEARLY talking about DECIDING CASES.
Are you defenders stupid or are you forgetting she is a current member of a racist organization that espouses taking over the SW U.S. by force.
La Raza, look it up Fusion………
Jeez, idiots.
Just another Obama dis”appointment”.
#56 Thomas:
It’s not racist because only whites can be racist. Duh.
I’d like to see how long a white group called “The Race” would last.
#58, I think it is called the KKK. You know the group that boasts a prominent Dem Senator as a supporter.
The real left bloggers out there are worried that she’s a “legalistic nit-picker” and not all that liberal. She’ll get turned down, eventually, and everyone will breathe a vast sigh of relief when he nominates some former RIAA asswipe that the bought and sold congress critters can actually get behind.