David Corn

Maybe the GOP attack was shaken not stirred? lol

Can't tell you're being rained on.

Lookin and soundin good!

I can't wait for the next nominee - all the attack language will have no effect. The WH is playing the GOP like a violin.

http://votevets.org/pages/?id=0025

Doonesbury on the contrast between Obama and Bush 5/30

http://tinyurl.com/la8kbe

via Buzzflash

Maybe the RNC was affraid that Obama would sick the Black Panthers on them!

EXCLUSIVE: Career lawyers overruled on voting case
Black Panthers had wielded weapons, blocked polls
By Jerry Seper (Contact) | Friday, May 29, 2009

Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

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First Acorn and now the Black Panthers, looks like Obama is trying to shore up his next election in case the electorate turns against him when they finally get fed up with his power grabs and tax hikes!!!!

In a 1996 Suffolk Law Review article, co-authored with Nicole Gordon, the Board's executive director at that time, Sotomayor writes:

"We would never condone private gifts to judges about to decide a case implicating the gift-givers' interests. Yet our system of election financing permits extensive private, including corporate, financing of candidates' campaigns, raising again and again the question what the difference is between contributions and bribes and how legislators or other officials can operate objectively on behalf of the electorate. Can elected officials say with credibility that they are carrying out the mandate of a 'democratic' society, representing only the general public good, when private money plays such a large role in their campaigns?"

(from a Public Campaign Action Fund email)

Can elected officials say with credibility that they are carrying out the mandate of a 'democratic' society, representing only the general public good, when private money plays such a large role in their campaigns?"
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Hmmm! Maybe she should stand by her principals and decline the appointment since Obamas best buddy "Rezco" went to the slammer for this pay tp play crap!

Republicans Divided Over How to Oppose Sotomayor

Republicans are battling each other over how to attack President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, because of fears that Hispanic voters will revolt against her opponents at the polls.

http://tinyurl.com/m8kvjg

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Obviously the GOP don't even know when they are being racist.

It won't be just Hispanic voters revolting against her opponents - it will be people of all races and people of both parties.

I heard on Randi Rhodes radio show:

"Two words that end any argument for Sotomayor - Sarah Palin"

lol

Sotomayor Spark Lights Intra-GOP Conflagration

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And at the end of the day, let's also remember that the "fight" of the Sotomayor is more theater than an actual high-stakes debate. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the head Republican on the Judiciary Committee, admitted two days ago that he didn't see an actual filibuster in the works. And Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) yesterday told CNN essentially the same thing -- that Sotomayor will be confirmed barring some unforeseen disqualifying circumstance.

So if it's all about performance, the debate is really about what kind of performance the GOP should put on -- one to rally the base, or a more respectable show to attempt to win back previously lost voters.

http://tinyurl.com/mh9n49

Levin: Cheney "Bore False Witness" On Torture

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Says Levin:

When former Vice President Cheney said last week that what happened at Abu Ghraib was the work of a quote few sadistic prison guards acting on their own, he bore false witness.

And when he said last week there was no link between the techniques at Abu Ghraib and those approved for use in the CIA's secret prisons, he again strayed from the truth.

The seeds of Abu Ghraib's rotten fruit were sown by civilians at the highest levels of our government.

Hard to put it better than that.

http://tinyurl.com/mg74kf

The Bogus Torture Coverup

The Pentagon is denying the facts: Photographs of Abu Ghraib torture are even more sexually explicit than first reported, including rape and sodomy, writes The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, who has obtained specific and detailed corroboration of the photos.

http://tinyurl.com/nhvxb2

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It is never the crimes that get people in as much trouble as the cover-ups.

The GOP's Suicide Mission

Memo to my party: Blasting targets like Sonia Sotomayor and Colin Powell is a surefire strategy to guarantee our extinction.

[...]

Sotomayor is going to be confirmed. There is little doubt about it. So, going into weeks or months of paroxysms and hysterics about alleged “judicial activism” is just going to make the party look bitter, mean, tone deaf, and out of touch.

And we should be on our knees praising Colin Powell for declaring that he has not, despite the desire of some narrow and vocal forces within the GOP, left the party. Because if he leaves the party, we might as well turn the lights out. This is a man who, arguably, could have been the first African-American president had he made the decision to run against Bill Clinton in 1996.

http://tinyurl.com/rbe85j

Freddie, Freddie, Freddie,

I must erase you from the rolls of sentient beings. I can never find a racist to be worthy of the title sentient.

So long and goodbye. I will no longer comment re: you since you lack anything resembling an intellect.

Sorry Capt, but I believe the Repubs won the racist debate. Nice try though..........

Obama sure Sotomayor would restate 2001 comment

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – 41 mins ago

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. "I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

The quote in question from Sotomayor has emerged as a rallying call for conservative critics who fear she will offer opinions from the bench based less on the rule of law and more on her life experience, ethnicity and gender. That issue is likely to play a central role in her Senate confirmation process.

Obama also defended his nominee, saying her message was on target even if her exact wording was not.
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American capitalism gone with a whimper

27.04.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru


It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

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Pretty sad when then Russians are calling you progressives Marxist sheeple.................

Too funny!

Thta Pravda article was just for you Kalpal!!

"Hmmm! Maybe she should stand by her principals ..."

Principals, principles.................guess it's more or less the same word.

Hooked on phonics has its limitations.

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

Mark Twain

Cheney's pitch

Appearing in his own defense

[...]

There you have it, two views of national security across a yawning chasm.

For Obama, it is neither necessary nor permissable to act outside the law to secure the nation's safety. For Cheney, it would recklessly endanger American lives to do otherwise.

For us, Obama's vision of America is compatible with its founding documents. Cheney's would be unrecognizable -- and deeply alarming -- to the men who wrote them.

For us, Cheney's words recall those of the U.S. Army major who, after American forces leveled the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre, famously said, "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12480073

kalpal put it quite well, methinks.

Poll: Obama Support Still Unusually High

After three months on the job, President Obama continues to be widely popular.

That is according to a new poll released today by Gallup that shows Obama's approval rating at 65%.

President Obama's approval rating has stayed relatively consistent -- and high -- since he was sworn into office in January. He started out with a 66% rating and dropped temporarily to 62% in March.

That puts Obama into a select group of presidents whose approval ratings have increased from February to May of their first year in office.

Since World War II, only three first-term presidents -- Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan -- have had a higher average approval rating in May of their first year.

In recent years, declining approval ratings have been the standard. George W. Bush's rating dropped four points from February to May, and Bill Clinton's dropped nine.

http://tinyurl.com/nepvnx

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Not bad for a socialist, eh?

lol

Obama Receives Large Sotomayor Bump

Sotomayor's nomination, combined with the Republican attacks on her, could potentially result in a long-term shift of Latinos toward Democrats.

http://tinyurl.com/nkyzou

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Again, not bad considering Sotomayor is a bigoted racist.

I hope the RWNJ attacks stay strident - there will be no Indy's left for the right.

The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview.

http://tinyurl.com/kpsqhw

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The real damage to the GOP inflicted by the mendacious Bush/Cheney years is just starting to come to light.

The real conservatives are just getting the clue and their anger is just starting to simmer.

Lies and BS always bring a backlash.

There is an old Russian saying, There is no Pravada in Tass and no Tass in Pravada. There is also no Pravda in in poor benighted Ferddie. Long may he rest in his right wing Gehenom.