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GOP Looks for at Least 20 'No' Votes
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/13/09 | Naftali Bendavid

Posted on 07/13/2009 11:34:55 AM PDT by JSDude1

WASHINGTON -- Opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court suggested they would consider it a victory if more than half of the Senate's 40 Republicans voted against her in this week's confirmation hearing, as the GOP grapples with how aggressively to challenge the nominee. Many Republicans said they viewed 23 "no" votes as a benchmark, because that would be one more than Chief Justice John Roberts received in 2005 and would reflect a significant protest vote. Others said that if the Senate GOP were to split roughly in half, that would signal support to conservatives who oppose Judge Sotomayor without angering Hispanic voters with a wholesale dismissal of her nomination.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhojudicialnominees; confirmation; gop; limpwristed; republicansellouts; rinoparty; sessions; sotomayor
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1 posted on 07/13/2009 11:34:57 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

LOL


2 posted on 07/13/2009 11:35:46 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/07/hopeless_gop_ho.html#comments

I SUGGEST you call:

Republican National Committee

310 First Street

Washington, D.C. 20003


3 posted on 07/13/2009 11:36:22 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: JSDude1

Republican National Committee

310 First Street

Washington, D.C. 20003

p/202.863.8500


4 posted on 07/13/2009 11:37:00 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: JSDude1

Newsflash: Diogenes still looking for an honest man in D.C. too.


5 posted on 07/13/2009 11:37:27 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: JSDude1

Why not vote against her, if you find her statements and apparent “judicial philosophy” unseemly? Nothing to lose.


6 posted on 07/13/2009 11:37:46 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: JSDude1

Yeah boy. I’d sure be a fan of a football team who’s goal was to lose by only 20 points. Go team go!


7 posted on 07/13/2009 11:38:03 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: Tublecane

That’s what ‘m say’n!

IF NOTHING ELESE IT WOULD ‘GALVANIZE’ OUR SIDE: (And possibly peel away a few of “them”)..


8 posted on 07/13/2009 11:41:17 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: dblshot

If they get 20 No votes, they don’t lose by 20, they lose by 60.


9 posted on 07/13/2009 11:41:42 AM PDT by dmz
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To: JSDude1

Usually “calling” implies a phone number, not an address!


10 posted on 07/13/2009 11:41:53 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: JSDude1

The ones that are up for re-election in 2010 will vote no, the rest will vote to confirm. What a bunch of losers.


11 posted on 07/13/2009 11:42:20 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
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To: JSDude1

Ugh!


12 posted on 07/13/2009 11:42:33 AM PDT by earlJam
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Oh no! The Hispanic people won’t love us!


13 posted on 07/13/2009 11:42:36 AM PDT by clintonh8r (General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you?!)
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To: JSDude1

The GOP is too scared to vote against this racist woman in fear they will be called racist.

Forget the core principals GOP, we don’t want you to upset any small group that does not and would not ever vote for you in the first place.


14 posted on 07/13/2009 11:43:22 AM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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To: Jack Black

See number 4


15 posted on 07/13/2009 11:43:38 AM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: JSDude1

Vote against her and tell the Hispanics you don’t pander under any circumstance and she ain’t looking out for you! Simple as that!


16 posted on 07/13/2009 11:43:47 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Stop meddling in the affairs of countries and individuals Obama!)
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So its going to be 80-20 to put the racist on the SCOTUS?

I hate the Republican Party


17 posted on 07/13/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by GeronL ( Patriotic Insurrectionist at http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: clintonh8r
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18 posted on 07/13/2009 11:46:59 AM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Tublecane

She couldn’t even hold up the EEO Law which is a Democrat boondoggle put into law by LBJ. Those flunkees were affirmative action hires. She’s an affirmative action hire. It’s time to push back against socialism and racial justice disguised as freedom.


19 posted on 07/13/2009 11:47:56 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Stop meddling in the affairs of countries and individuals Obama!)
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To: JSDude1

80% of GOP senators support the racist Sotomayor. Not even 20% of GOP senators support Palin. Go GOP! LOL!


20 posted on 07/13/2009 11:48:32 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Sarah Palin: Sun Tzu of Politics)
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