Posted on 05/29/2009 1:42:28 AM PDT by gusopol3
Estrada's nomination for a federal judgeship set off alarm bells among Democrats. There is a group of left-leaning organizations -- People for the American Way, NARAL, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, and others -- that work closely with Senate Democrats to promote Democratic judicial nominations and kill Republican ones. They were particularly concerned about Estrada.
In November, 2001, representatives of those groups met with Democratic Senate staff. One of those staffers then wrote a memo to Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin, informing Durbin that the groups wanted to stall Bush nominees, particularly three they had identified as good targets. "They also identified Miguel Estrada as especially dangerous," the staffer added, "because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The constitution means nothing to the Dems. It’s all about advancing their agenda.
Common Decency doesn’t mean much either. On second thought, it’s a negative.
When Democrats ruthless smear conservatives blacks, hispanics, women....it is not sexist or racist. But when conservatives raise legitimate issues and oppose a Democrat, it is racist....Gee, no hypocrisy here...move on.
Its astounding isn’t it?
More accurately, smear those that were members of the Federalist Society and Estrada was a federalist. And not just actual card carrying federalists, but also those that might be a stealth Federalist such John Roberts, Janice Brown, and Alberto Gonzales.
This all flows from the theory that the federalists were using the free trade agreements to roll back the New Deal.
I am citing one of the comments made to the article from “Texas Rose” and my responses to her comment. The rampant stupidity of the overwhelming majority of the American people is the root cause of all of this. If most Americans were interested in the important things in life, the democrats and press wouldn’t be able to get away with their usual skulduggery and hypocrisy.
Texas Rose
May 29, 2009
Democrats will say that we are trying to block Sotomayor because she is Hispanic and tar us a racist. But we will be against her not because of her race, but because of her racists remarks and judicial philosophy and real issues, none of which were there for Estrada. And it was the Democrats who actually DID block a nominee because he was Hispanic. Ironic and hypocritical, but this is always what the lying Democrats do. and they always get away with it because they always have the media to cover for them and carry their water. I am so sick of it and see no way to get around it ever. I have never been so discouraged because this happens just time after time. The Democrats actually are everything they try to say the Republican are — racists, corrupt, liars, idealogue, etc. And the Republicans actually are NOT any of those things. We really are in a topsy turvy world. When a lie is believed as truth and the truth is believed as a lie. It’s just mind-boggling.
J. Hood Roberts
May 29, 2009
Texas Rose, I agree with everything you say except I would amend your sentence to read “...they always get away with it because they always have the media to cover for them and carry their water and because the overwhelming majority of the American people are too stupid to figure any of this out.” Most Americans, like my wife, are much more concerned with and obsessed with “Celebrities” and pop culture rather than the future direction of the country. Case in point — On our kitchen counter is my wife’s In Touch magazine which has an article titled “Which star has a lumpy butt.” My wife probably doesn’t even know who Sotomayor is or what a danger Sotomayor presents to traditional American values and thought.
“The rampant stupidity of the overwhelming majority of the American people is the root cause of all of this. “
I agree.
Until we retake our public school system this will only get worse.
If any of my fellow FReepers live in a Hispanic town, PLEASE write a letter to the editor to remind Hispanics how the Dems filibustered Estrada four times!
BTTT
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