Top Senate aides: GOP ready to roll over for Sotomayor
posted at 6:30 pm on May 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
No surprise. Sessions hinted this morning in an interview that there’ll be no filibuster and Grassley told C-SPAN flatly that she’ll be confirmed. As I said yesterday, what’s the point of starting a nuclear war that you can’t win? Save the ICBMs for next time, when the other side might be weaker.
Top Senate Republican strategists tell POLITICO that, barring unknown facts about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the GOP plans no scorched-earth opposition to her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice…
“The sentiment is overwhelming that the Senate should do due diligence but should not make a mountain out of a molehill,” said a top Senate Republican aide. “If there’s no ‘there’ there, we shouldn’t try to create one.”…
GOP officials say they realize the party needs to improve its standing among Hispanic voters in order to have any hope of winning a national election, and they admit that trashing the first Latina nominee to the court could cement stereotypes or further alienate minorities…
Republican officials said they still plan an aggressive investigation of her paper trail, since Supreme Court fights have often taken unpredictable turns…
Radio host Hugh Hewitt was among the leading conservative voices who indicated that no holy war will occur. “I don’t believe in charging up a hill when you’re going to be completely mowed down,” Hewitt said.
It’s worth reading the whole piece, if only for the matter-of-fact acknowledgment of media bias in favor of Democratic nominees near the end. Further to that point, via Greg Hengler, here’s Coulter on GMA fielding dopey questions from Diane Sawyer about whether her heart swelled with pride at the thought of a Latino nominee, a line of inquiry for which AC was well prepared. Note also Carville’s painfully heavy handed attempt to goad her and Rush et al. into freaking out over the Sotomayor pick in order to make life difficult for Senate Republicans with the base. Even a fool like me saw that coming from a mile away.
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seejanemom on May 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I hear you. I consider Sotomayor to be grossly unqualified. She doesn’t understand the Constitution (or doesn’t like it, which is even worse).
And this fight isn’t nearly as much about her as it is about The Precedent. He must be stopped. It’s either him or the US.
progressoverpeace on May 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I agree with you about the no filibuster. That has to be reserved for places where a candidate is PERSONALLY unqualified. Sotomayor is just the boilerplate Obama nominee. Grill her hard. Grill her in detail. Point up the inherent flaws in the whole “empathy” bs, vote against her, and pray for a long life for Scalia.
notropis on May 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Americans, whether they be hispanic, black, white, asian or whatever don’t like being overrun by illegals and having states go bankrupt caring for them.
Just because one is hispanic doesn’t automatically make them pro-illegal. The GOP needs to pick a stance and articulate it clearly and stick to it. They need to emphasize the harm and dangers associated with illegal immigration.
darwin on May 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Pretty much. If we couldn’t win them over by running THE pro-amnesty candidate, then there must be something else they want. I just don’t think they can be “bought” off by a Supreme Court Justice.
On the flip side, I don’t believe that the hispanic vote is lost to the GOP if she gets harshly questioned during her hearings. I don’t even think the hispanic vote would be lost if Sotomayor would be fillibustered.
myrenovations on May 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM
At 73 what else do you need to know? I’ll grant you that my 101 yo great-grandma was still hooking up the mule until the day she said “I’m tired”.
Limerick on May 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Yep. And the shamnesty was what really destroyed the right, on top of it. It was a real lose-lose.
progressoverpeace on May 27, 2009 at 7:23 PM
GOP to Obama: “If you pick one more radical, we’re gonna put you in time out! We mean it this time!”
SouthernGent on May 27, 2009 at 7:23 PM
OH>>> I concur!!!
I should have added ////sarc to that comment.
PANDERING to minorities is embarassing and degrading.
I, along with many others, call it “plantation politics”.
seejanemom on May 27, 2009 at 7:24 PM
And I agree with you on both points.
I totally agree with you on the second one and my sympathies are with you on the first.
Understanding and loving the Constitution should just come naturally to someone who, by the grace of G_d, is lucky enough to live in the US.
myrenovations on May 27, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I do that every night.
myrenovations on May 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM
COWARDS!
Question 1:
When do I get to vote for a “representative”?
Question 2:
When did the GOP turn into the UN?
rihar on May 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM
About 1996.
Limerick on May 27, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Am I an idiot for simply being thankful that Obama did not nominate Jennifer Granholm or some other loser politician? Or a serious liberal legal scholar like Edwin Chermerinsky or Cass Sunstein? Or a major extreme feminist like Diane Wood? At least he gave us someone who is an actual judge and hasn’t destroyed an entire state!
I still think Sotomayor is a safe pick for Obama and not someone we should go to the mattresses over. She is not an intellectual heavyweight and will be shown as such once she gets on the Court. She is a perfect substitute for Souter.
This is an “eh” for me. We look silly trashing this woman. She’s been a judge for 17 years and if she was that bad we would have heard of her long before now.
rockmom on May 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM
The repubelicans have no balls.
-Dave
Dave R. on May 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM
What the hell good is the GOP and the Republicans in congress? Why don’t they all just consolidate with the Democrats and we can then build a new conservative party from from the ground up?
rplat on May 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I think we should redefine the term RINO. Clearly there are many conservatives here who register and vote Republican hoping for the day that the GOP stands on conservative principles and will fight for them.
I’m a conservative, a registered Republican, that doesn’t agree with the party platform. I’m a RINO.
SPCOlympics on May 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I’m ready not to vote for anyone who confirms her.
Kaptain Amerika on May 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Thank you.
Limerick on May 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Could be worse. Jeanine Garofalo could have been born hispanic.
Star20 on May 27, 2009 at 7:33 PM
There probably are some mediocre federal appeals judges (some state appellate judges, too) who are known as such in the legal community, but the general public never hears about them. With lifetime tenure, a federal appellate judge has to be impeached to be removed. They hire very smart law review editors as clerks, usually from top-tier law schools. So they have someone ghost-writing their opinions who’s smarter than they are.
Sotomayor looks like the kind who hires clerks with similar views, or who likes to write her own opinions, starting with the result she wants.
Wethal on May 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I don’t mind this confirmation BUT, not one of them should vote to confirm unless they have a clear reason of why they are voting that way. Just because they can’t win is not a reason.
Secondly, They absolutely need to question her qualifications. The racism/bigotry in her statements beg to be questioned.
If these two things are not done, I can see witholding all support from the Republicans.
ORconservative on May 27, 2009 at 7:37 PM
“We look silly trashing this woman.
rockmom on May 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM”
Which is why we need to make sure that we’re not “trashing this woman,” but rather calling into question Obama’s entire dangerous, and dangerously wrong, philosophy of “empathy.”
If we can even get Sotomayor on the record, in the hearings, backpedalling from this nonsense, we can play it, and play it, and play it, from now until 2012, until Obama sounds like the gaseous clueless fool he is in his supposed area of expertise: “Constitutional Law.”
It’ll be like the whole Jimmy Carter “I was a nucular engineer” thing (lefty folks conveniently forget that he used the Dubya pronunciation….).
notropis on May 27, 2009 at 7:37 PM
The liberal rags are already calling for her confirmation.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2009/05/27/a10a_leadedit_sotomayor_0528.html
roninacreage on May 27, 2009 at 7:38 PM
No sense waiting for hearings.
notropis on May 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM
That would be all well and good were there not several “theres” there. If her statement that Latina women are more likely to reach the correct conclusion than are white men, or that the appellate courts are where policy should be made are not reason enough to fire the ICBMs, it’s probably time to just unilaterally disarm and join the other side. Pathetic.
holygoat on May 27, 2009 at 7:46 PM
The GOP Senators on the Judiciary Committee need to ask Sotomayor some tough questions, having to do with Constitutional Law and stay away from Hispanic issues.
They can’t allow themselves to be painted as anti-Hispanic, but insistent on the rule of law. They would be unlikely to win a filibuster in the current Senate anyway, so they’re better off holding their fire until the next SCOTUS nominee, which may come closer to the 2010 elections (where some Dems might have to watch their sixes) or AFTER the 2010 elections, when there may be more Republicans in the Senate.
At this point, replacing one liberal (Souter) by another (Sotomayor) changes nothing–SCOTUS will remain 4 conservative / 4 liberal, with Kennedy casting the deciding vote. There’s no point in the Republicans being branded as the anti-Hispanic party right now. Let’s save the confirmation fights for when it matters, if either Thomas or Scalia need to be replaced, or when Republicans have a fighting chance in the Senate.
Or, better yet, if Obama is no longer President.
Steve Z on May 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM
It’s never too early for you to surrender, is it?
/rolls eyes
thirteen28 on May 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Please explain how asking her tough questions about her judicial philosophy, her past racial comments, and her frequently overturned rulings constitutes “trashing” her?
By your standards, asking someone about their skills and aptitudes during a job interview constitutes “trashing.”
thirteen28 on May 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Speaking of “roll over”, I would hate to roll over one morning and find her next to me.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM
You fight and ask tough questions and call B.S on her when it is warrented and you vote “NO” if you feel her views are dangerous to the constitution.
You also fight because the people who you will ask for financial and political support next year see the dangerous situation in DC and must know that you do too.
jjshaka on May 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM
They need to get this surrender out of the way to make room for all the others coming. Don’t want them to get backlogged too much.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:11 PM
By they time they get up the nerve their arms will be so atrophied that they won’t even be able to push the button.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:14 PM
The time for that was November.
The GOP is a worthless gelding. Anyone who would give money to that carcass must be insane. No offense.
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:19 PM
They better press her hard on her record and past statements. Keep it on substance and they have nothing to fear. But I doubt those spineless fools will even do this.
Daemonocracy on May 27, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Mere formality, especially when the “opposition” has already mailed it in.
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Aren’t you supposed to roll over before you play dead?
cackcon on May 27, 2009 at 8:22 PM
By 4:17 I was yorking into my napkin and had to press the pause button.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Don’t hold your breath. Lots of smiles and deference and compliments on her inspiring story.
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:23 PM
LOL…the GOP isn’t playing. There’s no pulse!
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Then we might as well all learn to speak Spanish and turn democrat. Suck the friggin teat dry.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Hmmm. If you never oppose, how does the other side ever get weaker?
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I am so mad I want to swear.
Screw the constitution.
Screw principles.
Screw the nation.
Screw the world and part the freaking sea,,, the GOP wants to improve it’s standing among Hispanic voters so if the nation has to be ripped to shreds, if the constitution and Bill of Rights have to be over turned, if a million more unborn children must die every stinking month and gazillions of other Hispanic Americans and Americans of every other background, race and religion have to lose their liberty and freedoms to get those Hispanic voters well,, so be freaking it!!!!
JellyToast on May 27, 2009 at 8:27 PM
What did you expect? But how is it that the Left never sees one time or another as the best or most strategic time to fight — they just always fight. Viciously, endlessly, with no apparent consequence or backlash. How is it that the Right must anguish at every turn, wring hands over perceptions of how they will look (perceptions defined by the liberal media) if they dare resist or challenge or make waves, no matter how good the reason or how important the principle. As if they live under some kind of occupied power, and must cowtow during the day and hunker and skulk in alleys at night, furtively whispering their ever-shrinking dreams. This victim or siege mentality is purely that — a mentality. They are captives of their own fear and conditioning. Rather than see one fight as fueling the next, rousing their followers, compounding their moral and political investment, they see each challenge as nothing but a risk, a drain on a limited and constantly shrinking capital. But they have less and less to lose each day. All they see in each potential political battle is risk, not opportunity. Their condition is pathological.
rrpjr on May 27, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Well, we had “Amnesty” Bush and “Amnesty” McCain. How much do those precious Hispanics love those two now?
Message to the GOP: you will never EVER be able to out pander the Democrats!!!!
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
- William Wallace
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM
I’m wondering if it is time I leave the party, at least until Primary season is upon us….
If they aren’t fighting, then why be a part of them?
Tim Burton on May 27, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Blast from the past!
Translation: McCain’s suck up to La Raza
By Michelle Malkin • July 14, 2008 12:04 PM
While John McCain’s lips move this afternoon during his speech to the Race’s open-borders lovefest, let me serve as your interpreter:
MCCAIN: My friends, you are right. Those people who killed my shamnesty bill have ill intentions. They are bigots, just like my friend Lindsay Graham told you they were when he spoke before you two years ago.
My friends, I don’t want to talk about securing the border any more than you do. But trust me, when the “border” is “secure” (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), then we’ll do what we all want to do: Formalize our Sanctuary Nation. Rejoice that illegal aliens are serving in the military. And sanctimoniously demonize and marginalize all those pesky bigots who keep obsessing about immigration enforcement and national security. I’m as committed to peddling sob-story platitudes and whitewashing your ethnic nationalism as you are! (What was that about the 15 things about The Race you should know? Shhhhhhhhhhh!)
Just work with me here, ok? Brother Obama may have marched with you at the Chicago May Day illegal alien parade. But I have a lifetime commitment to Hispandering! And you have showered with me with honors for my open-borders work.
Remember?
They don’t call me La Raza’s voice in Washington for nothing.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM
oh baby, I am so THERE.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Revenge donation?
Hey, if there were a place to donate every time the GOP makes us so mad we wanna spit…how much money do you think there would be in that pot by the end of next spring?
disa on May 27, 2009 at 8:42 PM
The Republicans need to get some guts, parley-voo?
The Republicans need to get some guts, parley-voo?
If just for a change some pants they would wear
The frogs might even give them the Croix-de-Guerre
Hinky-dinky, parley-voo
InkyBinkyBarleyBoo on May 27, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Remember the push to send teabags to congress critters?
Everyone should send testosterone patches, or facsimile, to the Republican senators.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Print something like this out and send it to Republican senators
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM
“if there were a place to donate every time the GOP makes us so mad we wanna spit”
Damn, if that ain’t a million dollar idea….
notropis on May 27, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Why do I have this uneasy feeling that Justice Scalia will have an “accident” in the not too near future? Crazy right? It’s not like a guy who grew up in Chicago politics would EVER resort to violence to get his way. Nah.
angryed on May 27, 2009 at 8:50 PM
So what’s the next first? We’ve had a 1st woman, a 1st black, a 1st Hispanic. So will the next first be a black woman? Gay? Lesbian? Handicapped? Midget (err little person)? Transgendered? Democrat male with a pair of testicles?
angryed on May 27, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Black and/or hispanic conservatives are considered freaks by liberals. Weird and creepy atrocities that make them shudder.
You know, if I were black, I would be damned pissed off to be told that I have no choice but to be Democrat. I mean, REALLY!
disa on May 27, 2009 at 8:53 PM
MUST you be such a bore? Get a life already, or go post on some other thread.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:01 PM
How to channel that anger into something creative…
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:02 PM
“Who is John Gault?”
Skandia Recluse on May 27, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Teh Dems are the masters of racial and sexist politics.
Jamson64 on May 27, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Since Congress is unlikely to vote itself out of office, perhaps we need a rogue wise Latina to legislate from the bench.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:08 PM
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM
As the UNITED STATES will not collapse any time soon we must accept any and all stupidity from our government.
/sarc
Jamson64 on May 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM
The US will exist past 2001. It will just look a lot like Zimbabwe.
angryed on May 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Rush attributes it to being an oppressed minority. Kind of a dhimmi existence in Washington, I guess. Bob your head to the libs, and maybe they’ll let you nuzzle their behinds.
OK, I know, mixed metaphors…
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:26 PM
I didn’t watch, but Carville usually does that when he doesn’t have a valid argument (which is most of the time).
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Carville is a supreme jackass.
LuckyLuciano on May 27, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Carville’s face IS goofy!
Star20 on May 27, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Sotominor is a self-declared racist.
A perfect choice by the spawn of Rev. AmeriKKKa Wright.
Those questioning her need only ask why they would want a self-avowed racial supremacist on the SCOTUS?
profitsbeard on May 27, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Because it’s so much FUN to scribble insults on the margins of their begging letters, and telling them what they have to do to get you to donate any more money.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Okay, I’m late to the thread, and others may have said it better, but here’s my idea of a strategic approach to the Sotomayer nomination…
1. Point out relentlessly, that her “compelling story” is the story of America – use this to make the point that we conservatives believe in, and support American exceptionalism.
2. Question her fairly on her rulings and published remarks, reminding people that it’s the appropriate role of the Senate.
3. Remind the public, over and over again, that we don’t Bork people – that’s what the other side does.
4. Insist on a speedy process, and an up-or-down vote, while pointing out the number of highly qualified candidates who were denied this priviledge by the opposition.
This is how you make the best out of the forgone conclusion that is her confirmation
massrighty on May 27, 2009 at 9:37 PM
If it is legitimate for Sotomayor to say that a hispanic woman would reach a better decision than a white male, is it legitimate to reopen that whole “Bell Curve” theory?
Star20 on May 27, 2009 at 9:39 PM
If I were black and had voted for Obama, I’d be damn pissed off that he couldn’t find a black for that SC vacancy. I mean, since quotas and empathy are all the rage.
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Want to really freak people out – swap in the words “Aryan” and “non-Aryan” to that sentence – gives it a whole new (scary) meaning.
massrighty on May 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Well said!
But you know, it seems to me that the old hack politicians have no fire in their belly. They just want to grip the tattered leavings of their careers (with perks) for as long as they can, so they can retire as comfortably gummint union members.
I wonder if they even remember what “conservative” means anymore.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I was happy that Ann mentioned that there was indeed another Hispanic nominee and pointed out that minorities are only good if they left leaning minorities. I think Republicans should ask very very tough questions of this nominee, I like the president’s reaction when people don’t behave as he wants. The more often that side of him comes out the better off we will be.
Cindy Munford on May 27, 2009 at 9:45 PM
There are plenty of mixed black/hispanics, aren’t there? At least one of them must have been promoted to some circuit court somewhere.
Then Obama can turn on the somatalk and hypnotize us all into believing that this person is the most qualified evah.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Amen to that, Cindy. He is simply not accustomed to being resisted or mocked. It brings out a whole new pathetic side of him.
As well as revealing a very angry and dangerous side.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Most don’t, I’m afraid – we just went an entire election cycle with hardly anyone talking about core conservative principals, such as;
1. This is (still!) the greatest country on earth.
2. The government that governs least, governs best.
3. An abundance of riches, unfettered capitalism, and a solid work ethic are what made this country great.
Try promoting any of these ideas at a neighborhood barbeque – you’ll be shuttled into a corner of the yard, and treated like the crazy old uncle the family “had to” invite.
massrighty on May 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Oho, this is rich!
In 1997, Rush Predicted Sotomayor on “Rocket Ship” to Supreme Court
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052709/content/01125106.guest.html
disa on May 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Those of us who are old enough to remember, remember that “Anita Hill” only became known a day or two before the hearings.
Marcus on May 27, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Those of us who are old enough to remember, remember that “Anita Hill” only became known a day or two before the hearings.
Marcus on May 27, 2009 at 10:01 PM
massrighty on May 27, 2009 at 10:09 PM
dished = dish
cases and tenses, right?
massrighty on May 27, 2009 at 10:10 PM
A foolish course of action. Because Latinos, by and large, aren’t going to vote for the GOP anyway.
Sadly, Hispanics have become like African-Americans have for the Democrats – an entire ethnic group that’s been bought off, quite literally, by Democrats, into voting for anyone with a (D) by their name. The only reason that Republicans have the amount of Hispanic vote they do is because of 1) a stronger family values message (which the Colin Powells, Frums, etc., are so eager to jettison from the party) and 2) they haven’t had the decades of Orwellian indoctrination that blacks have into believing that only Democrats have their best interests at heart (despite the fact that most Democrat politicians could give a shit about them except as reliable voters).
Vyce on May 27, 2009 at 10:11 PM
When are our elected representatives going to do the job we pay them so well to do and ask this judicial nominee some pertinent questions? Forget scorched earth and charging up San Juan Hill, just stand up and do your damn job and ask some straight questions. The dems didn’t give judges Bork and Thomas any breaks.
Kissmygrits on May 27, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Sotomayor’s really going to have to do something about that hair…
ddrintn on May 27, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Sorry, what? Wait for the next time when the other side will be weaker? When do you imagine that will happen? Why will they be weaker when OUR side is completely incapable of standing up for itself or it’s principles?
It’s not gonna happen, guys.
Seriously – even when the Dems were in the minority, they got their way because they know how to play politics. Our guys do not.
If our guys are saying they’re simply going to roll over and let this leftist, racist person get appointed to the SC for life – without so much as a skirmish?
F@#$ them. And f@#$ us for letting them represent us, and letting things get to this God-forsaken point.
Midas on May 27, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I really don’t see any reason to object to her.
AnninCA on May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM
I really don’t see any reason to object to her.
AnninCA on May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Are you trying to pick a fight, or are you really serious? Or were you referring how Ann handled herself in the video clip…because then we would agree.
Conservative Voice on May 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Okay, so she’s dumpy and middle-aged and no fashionista. Big deal – since when are judges gorgeous? Wouldn’t that just be a distraction to those old guys on the SC?
Let’s see if there are any Republicans who can actually penetrate the shell of this wise Latina, as she likes to refer to herself. Are there any REAL litigators among them, who can get to the core of her beliefs while actually educating people about the virtues of originalism?
disa on May 27, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Gee, now I’m all nervous that Bill O’Reilly’s reading my posts.
Here’s something for ya, Bill:
http://www.alternet.org/media/139825
Be careful, it WILL make your eyes bleed.
disa on May 27, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Hey, notropis – look what I found in the Greenroom:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/27/good-bye-republican-leaders/
disa on May 28, 2009 at 12:09 AM
She has a nice smile. I don’t know about “dumpy” and there’s certainly nothing wrong or unattractive about being middle-aged and not being a fashionista. But she doesn’t have to look like she just crawled out of bed all the time. Just sayin’.
ddrintn on May 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Apologies if this has been said
I don’t believe he was goading anyone; he was playing to the audience – the msm fed masses.
What a toad.
phineas on May 28, 2009 at 12:51 AM
disa, I’m a little late, but thank you. That’s cool.
notropis on May 28, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Perfect, let’s not even engage iin battle, let’s just roll over…
BOHICA!
catmman on May 28, 2009 at 8:35 AM
BTW, you can fight a battle you know you can’t win, it happens all the time.
The GOP doesn’t even want to do a “recon in force”? WTH?
catmman on May 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM
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