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Sotomayor Opening Statements [TPM]

You want shrill?  I got your shrill right here. 

You know her.  Her reputation precedes her, and clears out a room faster than a skunk.  Ladies and gentlemen: I give you Wendy Long’s Twitter feed.

WHOA…..Schumer was just overcome with emotion talking about the Nancy Drew stories Soto read! Historic moment. 

Stuart Smalley just said “I may not be a lawyer…” I can’t resist: but he plays one on tv?

If Durbin thinks “calling balls and strikes” is “easy,” let’s put him behind plate in Wrigley Field and see how he does.

Whitehouse says all Soto has to do is “promise” she will “use the WIDE discretion of a SupCt Justice wisely.” Tough one.

Admittedly, this is somewhat tame.  As was the day on the whole, frankly.  Tomorrow, when the questioning gets rolling, her feed might be quite amusing.

Every other lefty blog is posting this, so why should we be any different?  Stick with it until the end.

As if I wasn’t angry enough that snakehandlers like Ensign and Sanford have powerful positions, now I find that those C Street fuckers are associated with these shitbags:

According to the Washington Post, however, the Fellowship Foundation is itself linked to an even more secretive religious organization — Youth With a Mission (YWAM), whose Washington, DC branch owns the “C Street House” where Ensign has lived and where Sanford has participated in Bible study.

A diarist at Daily Kos points out that “YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control,” which involves establishing domination over government, education, business, the media, and other areas.

Here’s the really scary part:

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We’re not sure why everybody’s buzzing about Peggy Noonan’s hit piece on Sarah Palin — unless it’s that everybody loves a good catfight. Because as Paul Krugman points out, it’s more than a little late to take Peggy’s newfound respect for elites seriously.

And besides, last we checked, Peggy was advocating for the sweet mystery of torture. Do what you have to, but don’t bring it into the house, dear.

But since we seem to be stuck with it as a topic of polite conversation, let’s pick out a passage that’s been bothering us all weekend:

Her lack of any appropriate modesty did her in. Actually, it’s arguable that membership in the self-esteem generation harmed her. For 30 years the self-esteem movement told the young they’re perfect in every way. It’s yielding something new in history: an entire generation with no proper sense of inadequacy.

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It’s not often that I bitch about my place of residence, the Upper West Side, but today is an exception.  Which is worse?

This?

After crying poverty for months, Mayor Bloomberg authorized fat raises Friday for 6,692 of his managers and nonunion employees, worth $69 million over two years.

The raises, which will cover virtually all his City Hall staffers, but not himself, will match those given to District Council 37, the city’s largest municipal union.

There will be a 4% raise retroactive to March 3 of last year, and a compounded 4% raise – or 4.16% – retroactive to March 3 of this year.

Or this?

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Well, the Sotomayor hearings start tomorrow.  For those of you dear readers who have yet to scan the list of actors to search for the man or woman who is most likely to bring the crazy, we present the following viewer’s guide.

But also: if you are having trouble heckling at a moment of great stupidity, from home or office, we — as a service to you — have included some helpful suggestions.

And now… introducing… the key players in the drama that is to unfold.

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