*shock*...talk about a Milquetoast response.
Is this Surrender, Senator?
Milquetoast : a timid, meek, or unassertive person
Posted on 07/18/2009 2:17:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mitch McConnell appears to be taking Jennifer Rubin's adage to heart as his office announced that the Republican leader will oppose the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court:
McConnell gives his reasons in a press release outlining remarks he will make Monday on the senate floor:
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"From the beginning of this confirmation process, I've said that Americans expect one thing when they walk into a court room, whether it's a traffic court or the Supreme Court - and that's equal treatment under the law. Over the years, Americans have accepted significant ideological differences in the kinds of men and women that various presidents have nominated to the Supreme Court. But one thing Americans will never tolerate in a nominee is a belief that some groups are more deserving of a fair shake than others. Nothing could be more offensive to the American sensibility than that. Judge Sotomayor is a fine person with an impressive story and a distinguished background. But above all else, a judge must check his or her personal or political agenda at the courtroom door and do justice even-handedly, as the judicial oath requires."
"Judge Sotomayor's record of written statements suggest an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and therefore, in my view, an insufficient willingness to abide by the judicial oath. This is particularly important when considering someone for the Supreme Court since, if she were confirmed, there would be no higher court to deter or prevent her from injecting into the law the various disconcerting principles that recur throughout her public statements. For that reason, I will oppose her nomination."
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He's not going to urge his fellow Republicans to vote with him in his remarks which reveals why McConnell is a poor leader. The GOP could do a lot to enforce party discipline on this but won't do it because of the political problems some members will have if they vote "no" on the nomination.
Besides, in the "get along, go along" senate, such arm twisting is usually frowned upon.
McConnel makes an excellent case for opposing Sotomayor. It's just a shame he doesn't have the leadership to bring the rest of the Republicans along with him.
Bipartisanship is BS. Vote no, wash your hands of her.
I just heard on the radio news, probably ABC, that 2, or 3 have already announced they are going to vote for her!!!
They failed to mention their names, however...
Infuriating.
Santa Sonia is a TOTAL mediocrity, not even “average”. Of only modest intellectual achievement, the perfect “affirmative action” specimen.
Much like Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, himself.
Sorry Mitch. You can’t slither out of this one.
YOU are the titular head of the GOP in the Senate and so far you have demonstrated a total inability to keep your party members under control.
Like John Boiehner, you should have been ditched after the 2008 debacle.
I set at line on confirmation at 70 to 80 votes on the day the was nominated. I’m at 82 now..
I just wish he would have urged McCain to stand down from the Senate to run for President. We’d be rid of his sorry ass if he had.
A day late and a dollar short. It’s nothing more than posturing. The Senate GOP are Democrats. A one party cartel.
...OK, I lied, this did not happen and I am not garg...
I guess you failed to see my P.S. in #4...
These Third World border crossers are out of their element. They break our laws, then demand "respect and fairness"...........ludicrous.
ITEM Soto is a mouthpiece for racial agitators seeking to exert raw power over the rest of us---to marginalize the majority-----something one finds in failed Third World satraps.
The fact that she and her crowd do not understand a democracy is based on three co-equal branches of government is grounds for showing her the road.
Being Hispanic is not a criteria for seating a Supreme Court Justice. More is being made about her race than her actual judicial record.
She has the same disdain for America and it’s citizenry as evidenced by Obama.
Sotomayor's the "Latino Grievances" nominee......every ruling from the bench will be ironclad to redress every latino grievance since time immemorial. Americans will be paying with our freedoms......for those Frito Bandito commercials.
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REFERENCE Critics focus on Sotomayor speech in La Raza journal
The Hill | May 27, 2009 | Alexander Bolton
FR Posted 05/28/2009 by Zakeet
Senate Republicans investigating Sonia Sotomayor’s record are zeroing in on a speech she delivered in 2001 in which she stated her hope that a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences,” including appreciation for Latin-American cuisine, “would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
They are also taking a close look at the Supreme Court nominee's skepticism, expressed in the same speech, about whether it is possible for judges to “transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”
Sotomayor delivered the Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal published the lecture the following year. Conservative critics have latched onto the speech as evidence that Sotomayor is an “activist judge,” who will rule on the basis of her personal beliefs instead of facts and law.
“Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” Sotomayor said. “My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.” [Snip] The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal did not respond to a request for comment. (Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
So who did you vote for???
Its a safe bet for mcconnel now that he knows the remaining rinos and libs will carry the day. That mcconnel is bought and paid for like the rest.
Dear Mr. Steele;
For years I’ve listened as the GOP has warned me, requested money from me and ran candidates all to assure the selection of judges to the USSC would be determined not be ideologues but by those who believe in the rule of law.
Now a woman has been nominate to the highest judicial office in the land by the most partisan president our country has ever had the displeasure of having in our White House. Unbelievably this candidate is more of an ideologue than the man who nominated her; and will have no term limit to prevent her personal opinion to be used as the basis for judicial decision making. The GOP has the ability to assure her nomination does not go past committee, yet you and elected members of the party refuse to uphold the very principles you have exposed for years on end.
A vote for Sotomayor is a vote for bigotry, a vote for unequal treatment under the law, a vote that says by virtue of skin color or ethnic background one group of people are more deserving then others.
As the leader of the GOP is it now time for you to put your foot down and demand that for once, our elected GOP politicians listen to their own constituents who do not want this bigot on the highest court? Is it not time to reign in a party that has been allowed to run wild, ignoring the very people who placed them into office?
What does it say about the party of Lincoln, the party that pushed through civil rights legislation and voter rights acts against Democrat opposition to vote for a woman who holds those ideals not as fundamental rights and the rule of law but slight inconveniences to her personal judicial philosophy?
I have never in my life heard a person whom I regarded as wise, proclaim himself to be such.
Intelligence is different. It can be tested, quantified, and measured (to an extent).
One easy test of wisdom: If you claim it, you ain't got it!!!
Her statements are decidely unAmerican----if not anti-American. Her in your face attitude is most offensive
The self-effacing, controlled nature of Americans is one of the qualities that disinguishes us from these angry inferior people.
Aggressive war-mongering Third Worlders have an "us against you" machismo.
Soto stated “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”............. This shows a total self-loathing and an acknowledgement that she does not fit in and intends to stand apart from Americans.
He must think that most Kentuckians oppose her. What does Bunning say? Is McC trying to find a primary opponent for Bunning, who will be highly vulnerable in 2010?
You are right, but the American people are always wrong, it seems.
It’s amazing how KY people think that McC is tough.
A GOP "Senator" with a tiny pair steps up.
Hoorah.
Both Roberts and Brownback announced early on that they’ll be voting against her.
But we have to face it. Most of the GOP incumbents in Congress - with a few notable exceptions like Bachmann, are serial criminal office holders. They are so paranoid at the possibility of losing their “sinecures” that will compromise everything away. In a sense they are more morally bankrupt than the Democrats who in general will stick to their political philosophies even if they make them loose.
The GOP either needs to be taken over by a Conservative Cabal which will ruthlessly clean house, or we need to form a third political party to blow them out of the water. They are justifiably vulnerable.
I just heard on the radio news, probably ABC, that 2, or 3 have already announced they are going to vote for her!!!”
The liberal slimey media is making hay of the yes votes -— which is why there should be ZERO yes vote. Lugar, Martinez, and Collins, 3 of the worst RINOs limp-noodles.
OTOH, Graham and Cornyn will be key. If they all vote NO, and they SHOULD, then most of the rest will be NO votes and you can safely predict no more than 6 GOP yes votes.
Oh brother! I should have known!! Rotten RINO’s!!!
Milquetoast : a timid, meek, or unassertive person
“It is disingenuous to blame FR favorite, Liz, or any one for that matter, on the current debacle if they did not vote for McCain”
Not really. Anyone who didnt vote to stop Obama is reaping what was sown. The consequences of not stopping Obama in judicial nominations was well-known ahead of time, Sotomayor is exactly the kind of SCOTUS appointee Obama promised. McCain would have caused heartburn but at least he supported Alito and Roberts and pledged to nominate folks like them. Obama voted against Roberts and Alito and said he liked ... *GINSBERG* as a model. Yeeech.
As I said, well known up front. Any conservative sitting on their hands was basically declaring “Screw the SCOTUS”. in fact, I was TOLD THAT ARGUMENT LAST YEAR BY NON-MCCAIN VOTERS.
“He’s not good enough.”
“He’ll be better on SCOTUS”. “So what? He’s bad on XYZ, I wont vote for him.”
If they did THAT, and now are whining about Republicans not doing enough to stop Sotomayor NOW, when we all know the 60-seat Democrat majority means its a done deal anyway and its just a matter of the yeah vote size ... its a bit of crying over milk one spilled.
And if any conservative will not vote for Romney, Palin, Jindhal or *ANY* GOP nominee who is not 100% perfect in conservative light, after 4 years of Obama’s socialist destruction of our freedoms, then you’re a gobsmacked idiot and then you’ll reap 4 more years of what you sow again. Blow me down, I dont how to impress “united we stand, divided we fall” on folks.
“Well, this tells me that it’s all over but the shouting.
Sotomayor IS going to be the next Supreme Court justice whether we like it or not. “
Uh, it was a done deal the day Obama announced. Even if every Republican votes no, the Democrats will vote her in.
The one good thing out of the hearings was that Sotomayor *ran away* from her statements and sounded almost like Roberts in denying the ‘we make policy’ standard.
“Its a safe bet for mcconnel now that he knows the remaining rinos and libs will carry the day. “
What on earch is with these freepers who CANT COUNT?!?
There are 60 DEMOCRATS in the Senate. The filibuster proof Democrat majority means that it is irrelevent what any Republican does. Sotomayor is in based on Democrat votes alone.
Of course the math is the math, what I was referring to is that he shows up on occasion to act tough when its safe. He is a dc elitist insider who enables the leftward move at every turn.
Lugar, Snowe and Martinez have announced they’ll vote yea on the nomination.....
For info:
Alito was confirmed by a 58-42 vote with 4 democrats voting yea and one republican in opposition.
Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice by a 78 - 22 vote with 22 democrats voting yea.
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