Another GOP cave-in in the works
Corrupt Democrat Senator and lying douchebag (sorry for the redundancy) Chuckles Schumer misrepresents Sotomayor as “moderate” — just as I predicted yesterday — saying “Republicans will oppose her at their peril.” Sadly, Allahpundit once again misses the point on something else that’s entirely predictable:
As for Republican opposition, he’s worried over nothing. The head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has already sent up a racial flare warning them away from opposing her; the GOP contingent on the Senate Judiciary Committee consists entirely of white men, too, making the identity politics optics especially unfavorable. (Marco Rubio’s doing his best on their behalf from Florida.) I’ll be surprised if she gets less than 75 votes. Note also Schumer’s reference to the hardline “five percent” of Republicans who’ll agitate to try to block her. As I suggested in the Rush post, if any serious opposition to her does mount in the Senate, no doubt the party will be accused of doing Limbaugh’s bidding yet again.
One more time: so friggin’ what? They’re going to do this anyway. The way to combat that is assuredly NOT to roll over and play dead, in the proven-vain hope that someday these anti-Constitutional fascists will realize what nice guys we all really are, apologize, and stop with the smearing, lying, and race-baiting. It hasn’t happened yet, and it never, ever will; the Left has seen these tactics work for them time and time again, and they’re certainly not going to abandon them now. Those “unfavorable identity politics optics” are a consideration here only because we’ve allowed them to become so, not because there’s any real substance to such dishonest irrelevancies.
Sotomayor ought to be treated in her confirmation hearings with every bit of the bipartisan respect, courtesy, and consideration Democrat Socialists showed Bork, Thomas, Roberts, and any and every other nominee to the right of Stalin. No, in the end such an effort won’t keep her off the court. But it will serve notice that Republicans have at long last rediscovered an appreciation for the notion that our founding principles are in fact worth standing up for, and that if they don’t do it, no one will. And it will also let Democreeps like Schumer know that their days of coasting to barely-contested victory again and again over the supine corpses of chickenshit RINOs are finally coming to an end.
No one should be holding their breath waiting for it, I’m sorry to say.
Update! The bitter fruit of RINO capitulation has pretty deep roots.
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Rush called her a reverse racist. I submit there is no such thing. She is just a garden variety racist.
Why should I care either way if this woman gets the spot? I haven't heard anything about her qualifications from the people who are opposing her most.
Erik; you should care only if you want to rule--or be ruled.
What do we know about Sotomayer? Let's see, while she's formally qualified for appointment, she's not particularly brilliant, she's said not to have the best "people" skills, and, oh, yes, she has health issues.
So how damned dumb do you have to be to not see that conservatives are better off with Sotomayer on the Court that with any number of more dangerous replacements.
One would think that we had learned something from how our side took the other guys to the cleaners with the Meiers/Alito gambit, but they don't call conservatives the stupid party for nothing.
The longer we're willing to rationalize crap like this, the further they're going to drag us to the left. Yes, I know; the perfect is the enemy of the good, and all that. But we all have to decide for ourselves where the "this far, no further" line is, and personally, I think we've ceded way too much ground already. Whenever you're ready to start fighting back, feel free to jump on in. Plenty of us will already be there, waiting for you.
Childish petulance does not bring victory. While I share the frustration of those who feel McCain blew the election by his inability to call a spade a spade and to go after Effendi Obama where Obama was weak, Sotomayer is not a fight which can be won, even if we wished to win it, which we do not. Attacking Sotomayer is like a dog chasing a truck wheel: what would he do if he caught it? The best thing that could happen is to have a replacement nominee without Sotomayer's weaknesses. That's called getting "Alito'd."
I don't believe the Sotormayor fight can be won any more than you do; what it does provide, though, is an opportunity to put forth, loud and clear, some of the most fundamental values we have -- namely, the proposition that before the bar of justice, all of us stand equal, with prejudice or favor toward no preferred professional-victim group. It's one of the deepest disagreements we have with the Left; the opportunity to present it in just those terms ought not to be neglected or passed over.
Check out Krauthammer's column today (which is titled "Rebut, then confirm her;" his argument is precisely the one I'm trying to make, although of course he does it way better than I ever could.
Health issues? Hmmm, appointed "for life" or until retirement? Teehee. Yeah.