4 Q Liu.

The 9th circus doesn’t need any more activist judges than they already have and the only President to have filibustered a judicial nominee has no right to complain either.

I don’t even consider this payback, payback would be totally lying about what would happen when they got on the court, defaming them and their family, praying for them to be perp walked, but Republicans don’t do that stuff.

(while all the time praising the dems for doing it during W’s term)

pathetic tools

Just looking at this socialist dipshit makes me want to go to the Liu.

Jaibones on May 19, 2011 at 7:32 PM

LOL!

Americans are hardly endowed with critical thinking skills. Most of their lessons in logic come from media advertising which is based primarily on sophistries and fallacies.

All blow and no go.

The RINOs will fold.

davidk on May 19, 2011 at 11:36 AM

I stand corrected. For now.

“this nominee did not need to be confirmed”

What an odd way to put it. What he needs is to be dismissed from consideration.

For once you weren’t stupid.

What’s with the Hatch vote?

[BuckeyeSam on May 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM]

Hatch’s position on acquiescing to any President’s nomination, regardless of the nominee’s qualifications and positions is so extreme that Barry could have put up OBL’s name and the best we could get out him is a “Present!”

I lifted this from NRO:

The final vote on cloture was 52 to 43, with one senator (Orrin Hatch of Utah) voting “present” — well short of the 60 votes required to end a filibuster. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) was the only Republican to vote yes, while Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) was the only Democrat to vote no. Senators Bauchus, Hutchison, Moran, and Vitter did not vote.

Pretty important vote. Where were Hutchison and Vitter to show a united front against this POS? What’s with the Hatch vote? And note the Dems from purple and red states who voted yes on a very bizarre nominee. Judicial appointments alone are a reason never to vote for Democratic senatorial candidates.

Okay, never mind. Elissa Mewcowsky voted for cloture. Hatch voted present. Vitter/Moran/Hutchinson didn’t vote on our side? I don’t know what that means unless didn’t vote at all. That counts for 48, so a Dem voted to continue debate?

Anyway it looks like the three I asked about voted for continued debate.

The motion needed 60 votes to pass, but received just 52 votes.

Anyone got a roll call link of the votes? I noted earlier that McCain, Isakson ad Graham we reported to be supporting the filibuster and I want to know if they followed through on it or voted present. 43 votes to support continued debate seems low if these guys came through on their word … or some others chickens$$ts ran for the hen house.

Almost unreadable, but very patriotic!

(Red & blue words on a white background, at least on my computer screen at the moment. It burns!…)

cs89 on May 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM

Fixed now.

One of the groups pushing Liu was the Asian-American Justice Center. As Ken Shepard at NewsBusters tells us:

The AAJC’s list of recent friend-of-the-court briefs shows a strong tilt to the left on issues such as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Arizona immigration law as well as affirmative action.

Indeed, the AAJC hoped to convince the Supreme Court to uphold New Haven, Connecticut’s decision to keep white firefighters from a deserved promotion despite having passed their exams in the 2009 Ricci v. DeStefano case :

The Asian American Justice Center filed an amicus curiae with the Supreme Court of the United States in support respondent DeStefano. In Ricci the Court will address the issue whether municipalities may decline to certify results of an exam that would make disproportionately more white applicants eligible for promotion than minority applicants, due to fears that certifying the results would lead to charges of racial discrimination. The AAJC brief argues that Asian Americans are woefully underrepresented in firefighting and other protective service positions, in part due to a history of exclusion from public sector positions, and that Asian Americans benefit when local governments utilize promotion and advancement methodologies that do not have a disparate impact on minorities.