The Latest Dispatch From The Party Of “No”
Longtime GOP operative and former Reagan attorney general, Ed Meese, has been brought on by The Party of No (TPON) to throw stones at the Sotomayor nomination. This shows that (a) The Republican Party is still in reactive, not proactive, mode, offering nothing of their own to the national debate, and (b) They don’t know how to pick their battles, since Sotomayor will most likely be confirmed. All they’ll try to do is dirty her up, and that won’t help them expand their soiled, white, male tent.
Meese and his old guard cronies will continue the tired old argument about “liberal activist judges.”
From his perch at the conservative Heritage Foundation, the 77-year-old Edwin Meese III has been meeting with a network of right-of-center lawyers, buttonholing Republican senators and preaching the same message he’s been delivering since the 1980s: judges should follow the Constitution and not push a liberal agenda from the bench.
Any problems with pushing a conservative agenda? Not so much. And let’s not forget the biggest act ever of Supreme Court conservative activism: electing George W. Bush president.
She is every much the stealth conservative as the justice she is replacing was a stealth liberal.
Liberals are the ones who should be opposing this terrible, terrible, terrible choice for a supreme court justice.
Perhaps that is why conservatives have been conducting such an amateurish, ineffective, racist, sexist opposition to Soto.
I suspect they really want her to be confirmed.
flap Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
“She is every much the stealth conservative as the justice she is replacing was a stealth liberal.”
Roe v. Wade into the Recycle Bin! I find it hard to believe that she’ll be conservative on most issues.
June 19th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Not exactly Mainstream, Just what the Republicans need an Iran-Contra leader frontman.
Impressive bio (wiki) PLUS he wrote a book interpreting the constitution for the Heritage Foundation, big print I am sure.
“Meese has been named a Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank. Additionally, he has been awarded the foundation’s Luce Award.[9]
Meese serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the Discovery Institute, a conservative Christian think tank that is most widely known for its work promoting Intelligent design and inspiring the Intelligent Design movement.”
June 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I suspect they really want her to be confirmed.
Given that Obama won’t nominate a conservative; yes, yes I do want her nominated.
She is so horrible, so caustic and silly that she will be marginalized almost immediately.
Um Cara Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
She is so horrible, so caustic and silly that she will be marginalized almost immediately.
Unfortunately she will still hold a bit over 11% of the voting power of the court.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Cara,
Have you heard/read anything about the horrible decision the Supreme Court made the other day, giving states/legislature the right to limit convicts ability to retest DNA evidence in appeals?
I’ve always felt that the accused should be given every opportunity to clear their name (within reason that is), even after a guilty verdict.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Unfortunately she will still hold a bit over 11% of the voting power of the court.
But she won’t influence any of the other Justices.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Find someone that will p-off both parties equaly. Thats the one I want.
deeznuts Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
That’s Sotomayor.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
How deep into the fossil record will the republikkkans go? Next up, a seance with Reagan.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Alan, Alan, Alan. Still can’t move forward. Still using the “tired old argument” that Bush didn’t win the 2000 election.
I expect better from you Alan.
4moreyears Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Daddio, I am sure that you remember GWB LOST the popular vote in 2000 and was selected by an Activist Supreme Court after clear voter fraud in Ohio and Florida. I wonder to this day how Sandra Day O’Connor sleeps at night, but her husband was deteriorating rapidly at the time so I cut her some slack, but wonder how she sleeps at night.
Pino, compared to Thomas, Sotomayer looks like a rocket scientist. She can actually form questions and ASK them during court.
Thomas is no doubt allegedly excited about her appointment.
Daddio Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Why the racist comment about Justice Thomas 4moreyears?
One more time…George Bush won EVERY RECOUNT IN FLORIDA. And they were recounts in heavily democrat counties that were selected by Gore to be recounted.
And the SCOTUS was needed to stop the circus that was going on in Florida, by the Gore lawyers and the Florida Supreme Court.
Whether you like it or not, the Electoral College vote is what elects the president.
Justice Thomas is a fine justice.
4moreyears Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Oh my, look at the mess you made here:)
I am not going to spend ANY additional time looking up the dead patootie of the 2000 election but remain confident that the voter fraud and intimidation in Florida certainly and Ohio probably, was substantial. Florida was enuf. I would never change your mindz or mine.
I didn’t make any racist comments about Thomas. I just said Sotomayor can FORM a question and ASK it at the SAME time DURING a trial. You would be better off trying the “exciting” ground breaking sexual harrassment work done during his trial if you want to try and start something. Not much progress made there unfortunately. TGIF.
deeznuts Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
@Daddio: Why the racist comment about Justice Thomas 4moreyears?
Please point out this alleged “racist comment.” I can’t find it.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
4MORE,
Identify for the audience, the “clear voter fraud” that occurred in Ohio and Florida in 2000.
This should be good….
While you’re at it…look up the liberal Florida Supreme Court’s actions following the election…
Surprise!
Daddio Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
4more might look up the Florida Supreme Court’s actions that followed the election Jared but he probably won’t like what he sees. Then he will either not comment or use the liberal spin machine to justify.
Don’t hold your breath Jared.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
DADDIO,
My sentiments exactly…
June 19th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Read Alan’s just posted headline Jared? More liberal gloating over the Republican party’s woes.
I guess liberals aren’t as compassionate and tolerant as they are always preaching that they are.
He who laughs last, laughs loudest. I don’t think they understand politics and the ups and downs of parties. They forget that they were in the same boat after the 1994 elections.
OldLefty Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
“They forget that they were in the same boat after the 1994 elections.”
……………………………..
That’s when they gave up the last pretense of principles they ever had.
June 19th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Alan,
What are you thinking? The suggestion that, “The Republican Party is still in reactive, not proactive, mode, offering nothing of their own to the national debate,” just flies in the face of reality. Alan, you are smarter than that.
Republicans and Democrats have been offering suggestions tyo the Obama administration for quite some time. Most of them have been, “Slow down and allow the system to heal itself.”
This is a President who doesn’t listen to the CBO and has drawn the government into ownership of car companies, banks, and not the health industry?
If someone says, “Let’s wait and see if he can fix the economy, fix the unemployment problems or handle the tensions with Iran and Korea before we allow him to saddle the country with another few trillion dollars debt,” does not make one a party of no; just a party of caution.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:11 pm