There's no real point about blogging about the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. The Democrats are going to praise her to the skies, in part, to try and strip away the Latino vote from the GOP by portraying the GOP opposition as based in racism (which, to some degree, it is). The Rethugs are going act as though they know nothing about the rule of law (which they don't, so that's not much of a stretch) and try to throw out some bloody meat to the batshit racists in their base. At the end of the process, unless she has a public meltdown, Sonia Sotomayor will be a justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone on both sides of the aisle in the Senate knows this.
It is just political theater and I feel no need to watch it play out.
I could also lay on the snark about how it seems that Democrats "quit" or "cut and run" while Republicans "advance in a different direction" or "have other priorities", to wit:
- Bill Clinton was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War.
- Dick Cheney had "other priorities" and used a series of deferments to avoid military service.
- So did John Ashcroft.
- George W. Bush used family connections to get safe slots in the National Guard.
- So did Dan Quayle.
- Bill Clinton "cut and ran" from Somalia.
- Richard Nixon sent over 25,000 men to their deaths so that he could orchestrate an ultimately futile diplomatic shower curtain to cover withdrawing from the Vietnam War.
- Elliot Spitzer resigned from being the governor of New York in disgrace.
- Sarah Palin resigned from being the governor of Alaska "because she has other priorities" than doing the job to which she was elected.
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That pretty much covers it. If you want to control the political debate in this country, buy the news businesses. It worked for the GOP.
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