Comments on: Harumph!

By: mellbell

mellbell — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:49:32 +0000

@blogenfreude: He's absolutely right. I mean, look at what happened today just by dint of her presence on Capitol Hill.

By: IanJ

IanJ — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:09:41 +0000

@SanFranLefty: Late to the party, but: Well according to the great anthropologist David Brooks, Sotomayor has pushed down all feelings or natural womanly desires to marry and breed. So maybe she is a robot. So, does that mean that Ann Coulter is also a robot? Or did she get hitched and pop out a wee sprog while I wasn't paying attention? Or Condi Rice? Sorry, this is so easy, even I can do it.

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:44:40 +0000

Lindsey brings up 9/11, asks whether Sotomayor thinks we’re “at war,” what she thinks of the place of women in other (read: Islamic) cultures.

WT-fucking-F? Indefinite detention, of course.

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:34:05 +0000

Lindsey reads out her anonymous evaluations, which read very much like student riffs on professors. I’d be curious to read similar takes on Scalia.

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:30:00 +0000

It’s Roe v. Wade time!

By: flippin eck

flippin eck — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:38:46 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: Tell that to every Muhammad and Zaid who's been yanked out of the security line for a special search or added to the no-fly list since 2001.

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:35:15 +0000

"I understand there are some who have read this differently." That's the point, never mind that some are deliberately reading it differently. Use the quote as an example of the very principle at issue.

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:32:56 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: Kyl's bringing up Wise Latina, but being very respectful about it and related issues. But she's being evasive about the answer, where it shouldn't be that difficult to address, even in a politically heated circumstance. Take the diversity issue head on, explain how anybody's experience informs their judgment, which is why we have nine warm bodies on the court: insights welcome from all angles.

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:31:38 +0000

@nojo: The guy who made the shank comment has clarified, and done himself no good.

By: Mistress Cynica

Mistress Cynica — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:23:04 +0000

Okay, now I’m a little worry about her grasp on reality. Asked about the Japanese internment decisions,

“She called it ‘inconceivable’ that a decision today would permit the arrest and detention of people based solely on their race. ”

Inconceivable? Really?? Do we live in the same America?