Breaking: Wise Latina now Justice Wise Latina
posted at 3:47 pm on August 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
68-31, with just nine Republicans voting yes. The era of voting based on qualifications is now well and truly dead, having fallen into a coma a few years ago when The One decided he couldn’t vote for Roberts and Alito because they didn’t have big enough hearts or something. The GOP’s going to play his game from now on. Oh well.
All but one of 60 Dems voted for Sotomayor; Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) missed the vote. Ailing Sens. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) appeared on the floor in wheelchairs to vote yes.
Nine GOPers voted for her: Sens. Lamar Alexander (TN), Kit Bond (MO), Susan Collins (ME), Lindsey Graham (SC), Judd Gregg (NH), Dick Lugar (IN), Mel Martínez (FL), Olympia Snowe (ME) and George Voinovich (OH).
The official swearing in is on Saturday. I don’t know what’s left to say at this point after weeks of blather, except maybe that there’s a fair chance of a bona fide Chris Matthews racial leg thrill this afternoon on “Hardball.” He had one just yesterday, in fact, in response to Clinton bringing home those two journalists from North Korea. Can he muster another today or does he need more, er, “recovery time”?
Update: Just to make it a little more painful for conservatives, Stuart Smalley did the honors.
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Ammo prices just went up again. Can the government please put some price controls on this? After all supply and demand is a CAPTALIST concept. Casus belli
Green Muse on August 6, 2009 at 4:16 PM
She’s going to look like crap in that long, black robe they wear. She looks like a cleaning lady in her finest garbs. Hope she learns to comb her hair better. She could stand to lose a few pounds too. Hey, if they’re stupid at least they could be restful on the eyes. She’s a train wreck.
UnEasyRider on August 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Somehow you have managed to be racist, sexist and a pig, all in one quote. Congratulations.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
This is just so fun to watch.
Somehow, you guys are going to spin the third woman and first Hispanic Justice as death to humanity.
History will not be kind to the Republicans.
ckoeber on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Price controls on ammo?
Well, that would be one way of disarming the nation.
Count to 10 on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Just following the great example of our Dear Leader when he voted against Justices Roberts and Alito.
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Lets hope she doesn’t sent this country to hell in a Latin hand basket.
She sounds like trouble to me.
saiga on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Her vote on any decision can be had for a cooked pork chop.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
This thread sure brought out the trolls.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
The world had spoke
/getalife
What?
blatantblue on August 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
She’s a racist, and I’m 100% confident in saying that.
madmonkphotog on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
That’s unjust.
And unwise.
jgapinoy on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
When in God’s name is SC going to get rid of “Grahamnesty”?
ultracon on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
They can’t defend the ourageousness of Obama or Pelosi in any of the other threads.
It’s hard out there for a troll!
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
blatantblue on August 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
They have all been smoking this afternoon.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Just tie it around her neck so Bo will play with her.
Laura in Maryland on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
So, in a country where race is ideally irrelevant, you want us to be happy about a blatant racist being put in charge of the rule of law, someone who has shown disrespect for the constitutional limits of the judiciary, because of her race?
Count to 10 on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Worst defense ever — Hey I just emulate the guy against whom I rail at every turn. That’ll learn ‘em!
The Race Card on August 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Nah, she isn’t smart enough to be trouble. Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas will run rings around her, and Breyer and Ginsburg will have to cover for her mediocrity.
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
When in God’s name is SC going to get rid of “Grahamnesty”?
ultracon on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Every time I think that guy is getting right, he does something like this. I would like Obama to appoint him to some kind of post, maybe he paid his taxes.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Um. Obama’s ratings are dropping, Congressional ratings have been in the toilet since Bush, the economy is near death, the truth on Healthcare is out in a big way and people are getting educated on the Perfidity of the Demonazis.
Nah, Obama is doing something no conservative has been able to do, destroy Modern liberalism.
Pelayo on August 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
La Raza – Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer.
What’s the difference?
OhEssYouCowboys on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
How long is it ok to keep a tab on “nth woman to do [insert thing]?” I’m just wondering when it will finally be appropriate to criticize a female judge for being an idiot and a lazy jurist without her being the “nth woman to do whatever”.
Lehosh on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I suppose you think rolling over and voting unanimously for her would somehow have been more effective for Republicans?
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I’m suspicious of people who use the label “racist” as a political tool. There are many.
The Race Card on August 6, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Have you progs ever had an original thought? Talk about astro-turfing… And what’s worse, it’s boring reading the same comments from the thousands of Odrones all over the internets.
Rae on August 6, 2009 at 4:25 PM
I’d rather Paula Abdul.
Laura in Maryland on August 6, 2009 at 4:25 PM
so you’re suspicous of the entire democRAT party?
right4life on August 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I’ve always said women will never be fully equal to men in America until we can be just as dumb and corrupt as men and get away with it! So I am all for Justice Sotomayor. We’ve put mediocre men on the Court for decades, why not a mediocre woman?
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I love it. The Trolls have been avoiding all the Obama and Pelosi Threads and now they come out to defend this poor choice. Oooooh…how courageous!
kingsjester on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Unfortunately, mine was just re-elected in November.
But I will not forget this vote…nor will other gun owners in Tennessee.
ladyingray on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I second that, TXMomof3. Especially the pig part.
And thanks, Allah. The taco part was a line too far.
Cut it out, people! ¡Cállense ya!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM
ladyingray on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
The gun issue is one can of worms that the dems should stay far away from. Can you imagine the crowds at townhalls if the issue was guns?
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Rice and beans all ’round!
Mr. Grump on August 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Lamar Alexander’s name is now Isham Harris! Isham Harris was the governor of Tennessee that allowed Confederate Troops into East Tennessee to guard the bridges and keep East Tennessee as part of the State, before Tennessee seceeded.
I feel like the Thornhill brothers who fled north to join the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiments that fought for the North.
Pelayo on August 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM
As Racial Relations take a step backwards, thanks to our Post Racial President.
Romeo13 on August 6, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Cut it out, people! ¡Cállense ya!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Thank you, my Spanish from high school is rusty.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:32 PM
LOL
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:32 PM
I have news for you. Republicans have already been tried, convicted, and executed by firing squad for Leftist history. Nothing that a Republican does, however good, will ever redeem them.
The brand is so damaged that a new one is way overdue.
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Most cleaning ladies look brighter
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Actually, Cardozo was the first Hispanic justice, but he got there on actual talent and intelligence, rather than affirmative action, so he doesn’t count for the left.
progressoverpeace on August 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Maybe that’s what she’ll do, vacuum up the Court Room while the REAL judges work.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Cu the $#!% out, will ya?
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM
she’s a racist, obama’s a racist, and the entire democRAT party is racist
right4life on August 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I disagree. This is not to be taken lightly. 1/9th of activist ruling has been secured for at least another generation. There is a strong likelyhood that 1 to 2 more seats will be up in this term alone (JPS is 89, Ginsburg is 76 and in poor health).
anuts on August 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM
With Kennedy missing, the GOP could’ve stopped her. Nice spine, 9 RINOS.
SouthernGent on August 6, 2009 at 4:36 PM
That doesn’t mean we have to act like them!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Hitory will be written by the Republicans because after Civil War II there will be very few if any Democrats
bill30097 on August 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM
What part of “It was a foregone conclusion, they had the 60 votes” don’t you understand?
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM
That doesn’t mean we have to act like them!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM
I agree. I understand your sensitivity to this issue.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM
OK, now THAT was funny! (But you might want to add a sarcasm tag so Olbermann doesn’t make you his Worst Person In The World tonight…)
rockmom on August 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM
I guess you do. I’m Puerto Rican, too.
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM
we don’t.
right4life on August 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I guess you do. I’m Puerto Rican, too.
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM
I read your story a while back about learning English. The people need to keep this about her politics, not her race.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations to Justice Sotomayor.
This should be interesting going forward. Given who she replaces, any deviation from the leftist agenda will be useful and very bad for Barry, who didn’t exactly please his base with this pick.
As Drudge might post, Developing . . .
EconomicNeocon on August 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Have you ever been at the receiving end of a heavy purse, or a soapy-wet mop? Because you’re THIS close…
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Good!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Big whoop! Shes ugly. Most Dem women are. Who cares about her appearance? Let the Left suffer for not having an intellectual on the Court. Because thats who Obama will nominate next if he has the chance.
Speedwagon82 on August 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM
La Raza will be out in force 2nite w/celebration!
They now have a wise latina card member in the loop!
christene on August 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM
So what do you think about a poster on a mostly politcal website whose username is that of a political tool and who only seems to only show up on threads where race is an essential element?
…(and then proceeds to argue with him/herself)
anuts on August 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I think he calls it “fun”.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM
politcal=political
anuts on August 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Wonder what will happen when Justice Scalia calls her on her first, uh, “rhetorical flourish” falls flat. She’s in the big leagues and she is up to bat. Wonder whether she has the chops to, uh, “calibrate” her words just right?
clorensen on August 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Look, she’s not any more concerning than Souter, Breyer, Stevens, Ginsburg, or any other liberal justice to have assumed a spot on SCOTUS.
Does that mean she should have been confirmed? Well, no.
Frankly, it’s not about any “litmus tests” except her willingness to uphold the constitution. But there’s serious concern, especially due to her consistently-questionable private statements, as to whether she can do this. There are over 300 million Americans. This is really the best we can do as a nation? Isn’t there someone who can refrain from ruling us by judicial fiat? Why vote to confirm someone who obviously (despite her damned lies) has a fundamental disagreement over the role of a judge?
cackcon on August 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Sounds “suspicious”…
anuts on August 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM
All I remember from high school Spanish are the cuss words I learned outside the classroom.
txsurveyor on August 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM
We should excoriating all 61 senators who voted for her. Since when do we accept that is OK for democrats to be traitors? We know they are, but why are we only holding republicans to the highest standards?
csdeven on August 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Never for liberals it’s all about the gender and nothing but the gender. Unless it’s about race or Islam or homosexuality. Right now their wet dream would be a Black Hispanic lesbian muslim. Now that would get legs tingling from coast to coast. Modern liberalism is a mental disorder and nothing liberals have ever done or said will ever convince me otherwise. They are sociopaths in every sense of the word. I know because I know far too many over here in the great liberal haven of MA.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Dos cervezas for everyone!
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM
At least odd.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 4:57 PM
You forgot one.
txsurveyor on August 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM
She’s a liar, and they know she’s a liar.
Jim Treacher on August 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Crap….. out done with my own snide remark.
My hat is off to you sir/madam/thing.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Seis de Agosto will be their new f’ck-you-gringos party day.
infidel4life on August 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Because we expect the unacceptable Party and its platform to be unacceptable…yet the only viable, adversarial Party whose platform is acceptable to counter the former their capitulation and thus hypocrisy is far more aggrieving.
anuts on August 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Which qualifications would you be speaking of, her 17 years on the federal bench?
Jesus, if you want to vote against her based on ideology do it, but dont pretend that she is not qualified to sit as a justice.
Squid Shark on August 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM
I thought she WAS a disabled Black Hispanic lesbian muslim.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Yeah but lets face it. Who here or anywhere for that matter thought she wouldn’t get confirmed? I’m just surprised that so few Republicans voted for her. In my opinion it was a great moment forever lost because every republican could have and should have voted no for no other reason then to solidly and forever cement her appointment to the democrats and BO. It would also have energized the base a bit given the republicans a semblance of balls.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:06 PM
LOL…What’s in the purse to make it heavy? Cleaning Supplies?
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 5:07 PM
WOOHOO. Kiss it conservatives.
Terry Silver on August 6, 2009 at 5:08 PM
That’s because the Democrats are committed to bringing about the world of Orwell’s 1984, where they control history (which changes from hour to hour).
malclave on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM
You might be confusing “experience” (repeated reversals) with qualifications. But I may lack empathy, failing to be a wise Latina.
clorensen on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Learn to read. That was obviously the point AP was making.
Of course, Barack Obama is publically against voting on qualifications, so the Republicans who voted for her confirmation are just anachronisms in the Age of Obama.
malclave on August 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Sounds fishy to me. Reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.
malclave on August 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM
What was justice Robert’s qualifications. Alito? Scalia? Thomas?
Your quip fails. She is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.
You will get reversals over the course of a long career. Particularly when you sit on a generally liberal circuit and the court leans toward Consructionism.
Squid Shark on August 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Why is voting against an unqualified candidate the end of voting based on qualifications?
Qualifications became irrelevant the day she was nominated for being a Hispanic woman.
xblade on August 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Nail meet hammer.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Her “politics” ARE her “race.”
OhEssYouCowboys on August 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM
This whole thing is a push. We are exchanging a gay, lives with his mommy liberal judge for a wise racist latina. Congress couldn’t muster up a single real question… let’s be sure we include the next SCOTUS nomination in our list of official corporate sponsored astroturfing events.
BTW, did everyone else get their big corporate checks in the mail for participating in various protests? I got mine. ;-)
cannonball on August 6, 2009 at 5:27 PM
17 years as a federal judge might be a qualification, if they came up for annual review.
But they don’t.
The part where the committee rules require at least one minority member to vote to pass the nomination to the whole Senate.
Chris_Balsz on August 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Racism will exist as long as we continue to point out race.
cannonball on August 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Yikes. She is not in the same league as Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. But maybe she can grow?
I wish the newest Associate Justice the best and hope she stays close to the Founders’ intent and abides by her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee where she rejected the very empathy-standard upon which she was nominated.
clorensen on August 6, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Then tell the democrats and liberals to stop bringing it up because for them it is all about race all the time.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Somehow, you guys are going to spin the third woman and first Hispanic Justice as death to humanity.
History will not be kind to the Republicans.
ckoeber on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Clarence Thomas was called Uncle Tom and Condi Rice was GW’s bed winch by the left.How many front pages would it make if the RNC called her Obamas maid?
docflash on August 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Congratulations Justice Sotomayor!
Terry Silver on August 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM
No, racism will exist as long as conservatives allow it to used as a weapon by liberals. It will end when conservitives get the guts to tell liberals to stuff it and not cave when it is used against them.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Her judicial track record and public staements indicate she has no such affinity for the Founders’ intent. And her testimony before the committee was nothing more than a dog and pony show where she said all the right things. The Constitution is not held in high regard by this justice.
infidel4life on August 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM
History will not be kind to liberals and this will be known as the age of stupid because of liberals. We are living in the liberal dark ages where science and social advancement took a back seat to the liberal agenda.
jmarcure on August 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM
She reminds me of the maid occasionally seen on Family Guy.
Peter pretending to be a maid also comes to mind.
Coronagold on August 6, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I think sometimes we forget who the real villain in this piece is…
It’s the guy who used a rare opportunity to make an impact on the future of jurisprudence in this country… to pander for votes and support for himself. He didn’t pick the most brilliant legal mind available to him. He made his selection based on race and gender. And stuck us with a mediocre judge in the process. He didn’t serve you and me. He didn’t even serve Sonia Sotomayor. He served HIMSELF.
La Raza will celebrate and they’ll bring him their votes. And afterall, in the Age of Obama what’s BEST for America isn’t the point. It’s what’s BEST for Obama first, and for the Socialist Democrat Party next.
Murf76 on August 6, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Agreed. I just hope she does not hold that the second amendment was simply rhetorical flourish that fell flat.
clorensen on August 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM
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