Posted on 06/09/2009 5:41:11 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON — She greeted him in Spanish. He handed her a copy of his book. They chuckled over some recent mishaps.
Conservatives hoping Republicans in the Senate will block Sonia Sotomayor's ascension to the U.S. Supreme Court best not look to the senator from Florida: After a 30-minute meeting with Sotomayor Tuesday, a "delighted" Sen. Mel Martinez pronounced her smart, likeable and prudent.
"I think she's a very, very bright person, very, very much someone who the Supreme Court will find will fit in very well," said Martinez, a Republican from Orlando.
He said he will withhold judgment about whether she deserves a lifetime appointment to the court until her Senate confirmation hearings this summer, "but I should say I am very, very impressed with her, not only her personal qualities, but her understanding of the role of the judiciary, and the role of a judge."
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
“I didn’t know she was Hispanic”
Great. THIS jerk, again.
I hate the GOP and the democrats.
There is no difference except the democrats are nasty fighters.
RINO meets Communist and have an exchange of ideas.
Same jackass who said before the election he did not support amnesty ... why wouldn’t he support a bigot, as long as it’s a Latina bigot.
Liars one and all.
Finally Bob Smith is entering the Flrodia Senate race.
Wading through the alphabet soup of American governmental plans to save the private banks and their uber private bank, the Federal Reserve, one can only come to a single conclusion: since day one of the crisis, indeed, from the very creation of the bubble that could and would only lead to the crisis, this has been only about stealing every single kapeky of the people's money, their rights and powers and has been orchestrated by both branches of the One Party Two Branch system of American body politics. As I stated in The Hypocrisy of American "Democracy" and in Whom Does the US Congress Serve, the American public is living in a serious state of denial, the English along with them, if they for a second believe that their government has their best interest in mind, on paper or even as a fuzzy conception.
It is impossible for this author to accept that the heads of American and thus much of the world's finance did not know that the loose money, low interest policies and the absolute lack of any lending standards, would not lead to a bubble. Further, as the bubble grew and the few Casandra's issued their calls, it is again, impossible for this author to believe that again, these masters of national and international finance had no idea that the bubble would explode and lead to total collapse. Only an uneducated and naive fool, the general body of the Anglosphere public, was absolutely clueless.
Furthermore, as the implosion got underway and all signals pointed to nothing but an absolute route, it is again, impossible for the author to believe that the most obvious solution was unknown and other solutions that would only insure the collection of trillions in dollars and debt, in the hands of the few greedy men about whom Woodrow Wilson lamented in his 1919 autobiography, would not occur.
The stated goal of all of these bogus thefts, excuse me, bailouts, has been:
1. the stabilization of the banks
2. the release of credit
3. the salvation of the economy and thus of the body citizenry
To this end, nothing has been accomplished but the absolute theft of $2-4 trillion dollars, depending on how one looks at the promises and obligations of the members of the One Party Two Branch system in DC to their owners in the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. That there has been no substantial change in any of the policies of either the Bush or Obama administrations, only upholds the basic fact of this theft. As I stated in The Six Evils of Wall Street and the Suffering of Humanity, the owners of the Federal Reserve, the masters of much of the hell unleashed upon humanity of the past 120 years, have practiced their art of theft very well indeed. Their last, up to this, most successful enterprise, was the rape of Russia, but even that, in comparison, to the schemes in America, is chump change.
If the goal was actually to accomplish these three points, as stated over and over and preached to the world, then the answer is quite simple. Please note, I, myself, do not subscribe to mass rescues and bailouts but to a strongly regulated, fair and flat inner market (please never confuse this with Free Trade, of which I am neither a prominent, nor lover off, but in fact a staunch enemy). Now the simple an intelligent thing to do, if the order of the day is to spend trillions, is to: one, set a dead line date, after which strict market regulations will go into effect, specifying the minimum criteria of loan generation. Second, investigations into criminal wrong doing should be launched and carried through on all banks involved, on insurance companies, and on scoring agencies. Lastly, all house mortgages, which are primary residences, should have been simply bought out by the government. That is correct, the government pays off the debt in one fell sweep and gives the certificate of ownership to the individual mortgage holders.
In effect, this saves the banks by wiping out their toxic assets (not to mention, all other holders of such debt), saves all the people who are in their homes and provides $500-$3,000 per month in each home owner's pocket to "stimulate" the economy of his or her choice. At the same time, strict legislation keeps this from happening again.
That the brightest minds of finance and the body politic could not or would not see this humble and simple and straight forward answer as the key answer, shows simply that this whole crisis is a rigged game, a final grab of all available wealth to an uber .5% and the 99.5% all be damned. And the reaction of the American public? Well, as I described in American Capitalism, Gone with a Whimper little more then the grumbling and desperate self delusion of a lost, misguided slave dreaming dreams of his uniqueness and freedom. A fool's desperate escape into flights of fantasy and distraction.
That there will never be a revolution or upheaval in the American lands, is beyond a doubt. The American people have neither the whits, the internal fortitude, nor the drive to suffer and sacrifice for their own and society's greatest good against their owners and betters. The ineffectual "tax payer" revolts, known as the tea parties, are nothing shy of a joke and most of the world must be laughing. One French protest march in Paris encompassed more people, in a nation of 1/4th the American population, then all of these hundreds of mini "revolts" combined, even if you multiply their sum total by a factor of 10. Is it really any surprise that Lenin stands proudly, towering in downtown Seattle, while his spiritual forefather sits upon a giant marble monument in DC, a white washed dictator named Lincoln?
To my Holy Motherland, I will say only what I said before: Russia Must Offer the World a Different Ideology and as such, be in the position to receive into her bossom those few of the Anglosphere peoples, those refugees from slavery, who show a will to fight the Marxist enslavement, that Russia herself threw off almost twenty years ago.
-From Matt Rodinos Blog
As a conservative Floridian, I apologize once again for both Martinez and Crist. They are both Rinos who need to go. Martinez and Bill Nelson (D-FL) vote the same so often they seem interchangable.
He can’t be GONE fast enough.
What a loser.
“was” dying..unfortunately, Steele being ANOTHER RINO, but not as worse as Martinez, is a big improvement over this idiot who almost ran the GOP to extinction.
Actually Martinez didn;t do anything for the GOP except look Hispanic...
Super RINO open border Pedro Pan Ingrate back stabbing Pinko is all!!
LOL! Mel really needs to get a grip and accept the liberal that's raging inside of him.
I don’t care if she’s nice, or if she is fun, and I don’t really give a flyin’ flip if these guys like her personally. I care that she will limit herself to doing the job our founders tasked the SCOTUS to do, decide if laws follow the Constitution. If she can’t do that, she can go do something else. And they can all go enjoy each other’s company ad nauseum. Just keep her off the court if she wants to MAKE law from the bench.
Would you have expected otherwise? Martinez is a true dim bulb and he recognized a fellow dim bulb in Sotomayor.
I am about to weep reading that. That is very sad, but probably true.
Somehow I agree that the American people just don’t have what it would take to stop this.
Sometimes I try to find a ray, or see a spark that there is something that will happen. It is usually dashed within a day.
Thanks for the thoughtful post.
God help us before it’s too late. We’re descending into a dictatorship.
Good grief. I thought this guy was gone?
I’ve just about heard enough to change my registration.
The Spanish brotherhood is trying to take down the English order in the Western Hemisphere.
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