[Zakeet]

Freepers:

Maybe. Just maybe. A few pubbies might be growing a pair of stones.

Stay tuned.

/Zak

[SlowBoat407]

When you ain’t got nothin’, you ain’t got nothin’ to lose.

[central_va]

I’m shocked. Really. Equal protection under the law, what a concept.

[Think free or die]

I called my senators to urge a negative vote. It always feels futile, given that Casey and Specter are both waaaaaayyyyy to the left of center, but they need to hear from their constituents. It was hard to get through to their DC offices today. I suspect they’re getting a lot of calls.

[GeronL]

Nope.

I doubt it.

80-20?

75-25?

[Pistolshot]

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR NOW!!!!

[skully]

Maybe. Just maybe. A few pubbies might be growing a pair of stones.

Yet there will be enough RINOS that will vote for this racial activist “judge”, that will outweigh any GOP that still have a “clue”.

[xcamel]

aka: “A Circus”

[Man50D]

The question is how tough will they be when it’s time to vote?

[colorado tanker]

In September 2001, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, now a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, introduced Justice Antonin Scalia at a conference on legal ethics at Hofstra Law School in New York. Sotomayor repeated an often-told tale about a meeting between Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Judge Learned Hand, the leading legal minds in the early part of the 20th century. After lunch, Holmes started to drive off. Hand, realizing Holmes had left his umbrella, ran after him calling, “Do justice, Sir, do justice!” in that peculiar manner of speech a century ago. Holmes, hearing this, stopped his carriage, responding: “That is not my job. My job is to apply the law.” The quip illustrated the balancing act between morality and justice. Judges, to do their jobs well, she commented, need moral insight into understanding how to apply the law.

If she'd follow her own advice and ditch the "wise latina" crap she'd be fine.

[K-oneTexas]

That is a surprise. I don’t think she’ll be defeated though.

[cbkaty]

Lindsey will roll over and take it up the gazoot! Always does...

[Adder]

“I will not vote for—no senator should vote for—an individual nominated by any president who believes it is acceptable for a judge to allow their own personal background, gender, prejudices, or sympathies to sway their decision in favor of, or against, parties before the court,” said Session (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Hope Lindsey Graham is taking notes......

[DustyMoment]

Maybe. Just maybe. A few pubbies might be growing a pair of stones.

Don't hold your breath, you'll die of suffocation!!

This is just politicking for the national media.

[This Just In]

“Senate Republicans mounted a surprisingly tough attack...”

For a liberal to call attention to this line of questioning/comment speaks volumes. It implies that Senate Republicans aren’t usually tough.

Something conservatives have been privy to for quite some time. Furthermore, Gerstein is trying to persuade readers into believing that the confirmation hearings are unbiased, and that the process by which Sotomayor’s approval(if confirmed) had been carried out would have been fairly and carefully scrutinized.

Another farce conservatives have been privy to for quite some time.

[Dustbunny]

At Sonia Sotomayor hearing, Republicans are surprisingly tough

Yea, right and they will probably still confirm her if someone pulls the right strings.

They don't really give a damn about the damage she will do on the court.

[wny]

oh please.....they’ll cave. I still say 2 or 3 at least vote her out of committee and she gets 25 R-votes min on the floor. 30+ wouldn’t suprise me at all..

[Deb]

Unless they make her Mom cry, they won’t come close to the Democrats grilling Alito.

[LowOiL]

Forget Texas, Thank God for Alabama. They have shown the most stones of any congresscritter the last few years.

[john mirse]

This is what bothers me about what the Supreme Court nominee when I heard that she said that a Latin women might make better decisions than white men:

Does what she say also apply to white women? By implication, it seems that what she said about white men also applies to white women.

Maybe it is just me, but I thought that Justice was supposed to be BOTH color and gender blind. Maybe it is just me, bu I feel a little uncomfortable with this nominee. I need to hear more about her, and I need to hear her explain her side of the controversy about Latin women versus white men.

NOTE: I hope the nominee has not forgotten that many "Latin" men are white, because they are the descendants of the Spaniards who followed Columbus to the New World after 1492.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

“Unfortunately, some have sought to twist her words and her record and to engage in partisan political attacks,” Leahy complained. “That’s not the American way. That’s not the Senate way.”