David Corn

Opposition in search of a reason isn't going to slow the confirmation.

Re writing skills:

No surprise a thoughtful and reasonable issue would come from our side.

I think some of Sotomayors work is less than stellar - not just her writing but her opinions.

I kind of expect to not agree on a few things.

Nothing so far has convinced me she shouldn't be confirmed.

Re: writing skills:

David, I think you should proofread your posts before hittling the publish button. There were a few typos...enjoyable though.

Isn't that what she'd have those A-list law clerks for?

*writing skills

That's kinda funny (or maybe ironic). That DC picked that topic in a post that had a few typos. David, did your T key get a crumb behind it? haha But really... Turley had said the same thing and surprise, Pat Buchanan was using that to bash Sotomayor.
I would think the wingnuts would like her MORE for 'sticking to the law' on her writing, rather than 'wax poetic' with fancy words. lol

Nominee's Criminal Rulings Tilt to Right of Souter .

By JESS BRAVIN and NATHAN KOPPEL
WASHINGTON -- While Judge Sonia Sotomayor stands in the liberal mainstream on many issues, her record suggests that the Supreme Court nominee could sometimes rule with the top court's conservatives on questions of criminal justice.

The Supreme Court's five conservatives in January held that it was acceptable for prosecutors to use evidence seized by police who mistakenly thought they had a warrant to arrest a suspect.

Justice David Souter dissented, as did the other liberals on the court. But Judge Sotomayor, nominated to succeed Justice Souter, ruled in favor of the police in a similar case 10 years ago. In that case, the judge upheld an arrest and search that never would have happened if police and court officials had kept accurate records.

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She also has a record of ruling in favor of corporations vs consumers.

I say confirm her!

New Gallup poll-

Dick Cheney more popular than nancy Pelosi-

haha

New Rassmussen poll-

Obamas negatives are now equal to his postives for the first time.

Fredo NEVER learns. Why do you keep making a fool of yourself? He keeps trying to prove some rediculus point that's only important inside in his own head. That he's ALWAYS wrong is the sad part, because he can't see through the fog in his brain. Here's a quote from the poll...

"Pelosi's decline since last fall is seen equally in her ratings from Republicans and independents, with little change in the views of Democrats. The percentage of Republicans viewing her favorably fell 12 points, from 21% to 9%; the same drop in favorability was seen among independents, from 37% to 25%. Sixty-two percent of Democrats now view her favorably, down just slightly from 66% in November."

Notice the "ratings from Republicans and Independents" part? Now to the last sentence which shows a SIXTY-TWO percent favorable rating from Democrats.
Lemme spell it out for you AGAIN fredo. It doesn't matter what percent of a SMALL slice (repugnicans) of Americans think when the MAJORITY knows that small slice fk'd up our country.

I shouldn't even HAVE to fact-check fredo, because everyone here knows he's full of sh*t.

Presidential Approval/Disapproval rates...

Gallup 62/31
Rasmussen 54/46
Associated Press/GfK 64/32
Quinnipiac 59/31
Democracy Corps (D) 58/33
USA Today/Gallup 61/34

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

Conservatives Are More Easily Disgusted

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090604-conservative-disgust.html

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Ergo more disgusting too?

"fact-check (and) fredo"

In the same sentence?

lololololo

"fact-check (and) fredo"

In the same sentence?
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yeah, that is a funneeee one!

Hey Alan,

You can spin it anyway you want but queen Pelosi is at 34% approval and waterbaord Dick is at 37% according to Gallup who is a big lib.

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Gallup Poll:

PRINCETON, NJ -- Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Dick Cheney have little in common politically, but they receive almost identical image ratings from the American public. According to a May 29-31 Gallup Poll, 37% of Americans have a favorable view of Cheney and 34% have a favorable view of Pelosi. Both Cheney and Pelosi are viewed unfavorably by at least half of Americans.

51% Rate Obama’s Leadership Skills Good or Excellent
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Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters say President Obama is a good or excellent leader. While still positive, that number is down from 55% last month and is the lowest level found since he took office in January.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 27% of voters now see him as a poor leader, up three points from May and also the highest percentage of disapproval since his inauguration.
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Down, down, down and going down-

But Cheney and Bush polls are going up- hmmmm!

Alan,

While Barrys approval does remain high the new Rassmussen is an index of srongly approve to strongly disapprove, which is for the forst time equal:

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Friday, June 05, 2009

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 34% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of 0. That’s the highest level of strong disapproval and the lowest overall rating yet recorded (see trends).

The President’s ratings have slipped since General Motors filed for bankruptcy to initiate a new government bailout and takeover. Just 26% of Americans believe the GM bailout was a good idea and nearly as many support a boycott of GM products. It remains to be seen whether the dip in the President’s numbers is a temporary reaction to recent news or something more substantive.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter.

Overall, 54% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance so far. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove. For more Presidential barometers, see Obama By the Numbers and recent demographic highlights.
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Fredo fact smacks Alando!

Conservatives Are More Easily Disgusted

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It's called having morals and values......

Mary McCarty, Chair of George W. Bush Campaign, Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison For Corruption

Mary B. McCarty, a 2000 Chair of George Bush's Presidential campaign, who allowed "two dozen Republican operatives" to "turn her commission office into a makeshift war room and watch the 2000 manual recount on closed-circuit television," was sentenced to 42 months in prison today for corruption.

http://tinyurl.com/ne5p6j

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I think that is disgusting values and amoral acts.

Maybe it's just me

Kevin Stevenson On Losing GOP Post After Criticizing Limbaugh (VIDEO)

Kevin Stevenson, a Republican spokesperson from Wisconsin who was booted from his job after criticizing Rush Limbaugh, went on MSNBC Friday to discuss his fall from GOP grace.

http://tinyurl.com/qmrua9

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Disgusting - not even related to values.

DHS Nominee Philip Mudd Drops Out Over Ties To CIA Interrogation Tactics

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At issue was the extent of Mudd's involvement in the interrogation program while he was a senior CIA official in the Bush administration.

http://tinyurl.com/p9yhsc

I'm pretty sure Lindsey is deeply troubled by all women, especially powerful women (that is unless they are wearing a strap-on)

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Disgusting and amoral fantasies!

I think she write pretty good.

:-)

[...]

Their (Latino) approval/disapproval ratio for Sotomayor is 82/5, and for Rush Limbaugh is 3/77. In terms of the big conservative talking points against Sotomayor, Latinos like the idea of empathy in a judge by 79/4; and don't think she's a racist by a margin of 83/2. There are a scattering of undecideds on all these questions, but it's fair to say that Latino support for Sotomayor in this poll is overwhelming and unconditional.

http://tinyurl.com/kpu566

On Sotomayor, Fabled Conservative Media "Echo Chamber" Hampers G.O.P.

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All the fireworks, of course, are good for buzz and ratings. They were also good for keeping opponents off balance, for a time, when the conservative media's adjoining political party controlled government. The incentives for niche political programming, however, run counter to the needs of a political party trying to crawl from 40 Senate seats to a winning national coalition.

Republican officials are learning that in the minority, their echo chamber still works, but it's working against them.

http://tinyurl.com/pnthbj

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Stupid is as stupid does.

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

On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview. That's true whether the issue at hand is taxes, war and peace, the role of government in the economy, health care, and on and on.

Yet the idea that America is a "center-right" nation persists; Republican and conservative activists repeat the assertion ad nauseum -- as it's in their interest to do -- and most of the political press corps swallows it whole.

http://www.alternet.org/politics/140307/the_results_are_in%3A_americans_are_now_more_closely_aligned_with_progressive_ideas_than_at_any_time_in_memory/

All The Right Enemies

Mark Kleiman: “Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, John Bolton, Hugh Hewitt, and the Republican Jewish Coalition, and John Boehner all disliked the President’s speech.”

And, look, it’s no coincidence. Extreme elements on both sides of a conflict are in a symbiotic relationship. Islamist violence against the west strengthens the hand of the nationalistic right in the United States. But nationalist militarism from the United States strengthens the hands of violent radicals in Muslim countries.

http://tinyurl.com/qwkd5s

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Obama is a uniter not a divider - he brings all of the crazies together. Cheney and the rest are throwing in with the radicals - hoping upon hope Obama fails.

But the looney RWNJ's think it is patriotic when Cheney is a traitor.

(and during a time of war no less)

Shelby tries to blame Obama for bank bailouts that happened ‘last fall.’

This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) why he believes the Obama administration is “taking us down the road to socialism.” Shelby said it was “obviously” the case, and pointed to last fall’s bank bailouts as the prime example:

WALLACE: Sen. Shelby, you say that the Obama administration is taking us down the road to socialism. Explain.

SHELBY: Well, obviously. So, they intervene last fall in the bank crisis. No one has ever done it on that scale before. Now the automobile crisis.

Shelby seemed to catch himself moments later, saying, “you have to go back to the Bush administration. They started it.” Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3-d1wxcrHo

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Even the GOPhers know . . .

" “you have to go back to the Bush administration. They started it.” "

And Obama inherited the mess Bush made. Darn that Obama!

Reagan wouldn't recognize this GOP

The Gipper may be the patron saint of Limbaugh and Coulter, but he'd be amazed at what's been done in his name.

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The Republican Party that is in such disrepute today is not the party of Reagan. It is the party of Rush Limbaugh, of Ann Coulter, of Newt Gingrich, of George W. Bush, of Karl Rove. It is not a conservative party, it is a party built on the blind and narrow pursuit of power.

Not too long ago, conservatives were thought of as the locus of creative thought. Conservative think tanks (full disclosure: I was one of the three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation) were thought of as cutting-edge, offering conservative solutions to national problems. By the 2008 elections, the very idea of ideas had been rejected. One who listened to Barry Goldwater's speeches in the mid-'60s, or to Reagan's in the '80s, might have been struck by their philosophical tone, their proposed (even if hotly contested) reformulation of the proper relationship between state and citizen. Last year's presidential campaign, on the other hand, saw the emergence of a Republican Party that was anti-intellectual, nativist, populist (in populism's worst sense) and prepared to send Joe the Plumber to Washington to manage the nation's public affairs.

American conservatism has always had the problem of being misnamed. It is, at root, the political twin to classical European liberalism, a freedoms-based belief in limiting the power of government to intrude on the liberties of the people. It is the opposite of European conservatism (which Winston Churchill referred to as reverence for king and church); it is rather the heir to John Locke and James Madison, and a belief that the people should be the masters of their government, not the reverse (a concept largely turned on its head by the George W. Bush presidency).

Over the last several years, conservatives have turned themselves inside out: They have come to worship small government and have turned their backs on limited government. They have turned to a politics of exclusion, division and nastiness. Today, they wonder what went wrong, why Americans have turned on them, why they lose, or barely win, even in places such as Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina.

And, watching, I suspect Ronald Reagan is smacking himself on the forehead, rolling his eyes and wondering who in the world these clowns are who want so desperately to wrap themselves in his cloak.

http://tinyurl.com/ark6st

More local focus on Judge Sonia Sotomayor

(local here in NM)

http://tinyurl.com/pqcnzk

As the Republicans grow more paranoid, they grow less popular. Obama is reaching out to the world, and after 100 days in office, his approval rating hit 73 percent, higher than the younger Bush or Clinton at that stage in their terms, with particularly high marks on foreign policy. More than half of Americans think Obama is striking the right balance between pushing U.S. interests and taking its allies interests into account, according to Pew. Fewer than a third disagree.

The GOP is in danger of losing its reputation, firm since the Richard Nixon era, as the party of national security. A few weeks ago, members of the Republicans' more internationalist wing, including Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, began a campaign to temper the party's image, but their one-page national-security plan said so little, it was hard to tell where they stood. Unless the GOP gets a grip on America's place in the world, its place in American politics will continue to slip.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/197895

Oh my: GOP now leads Dems by six points on economy in Rasmussen

June 8, 2009

This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue…
Republicans also now hold a six-point lead on the issue of government ethics and corruption, the second most important issue to all voters and the top issue among unaffiliated voters. That shows a large shift from May, when Democrats held an 11-point lead on the issue…
For the eighth straight month, Republicans lead on national security. The GOP now holds a 51% to 36% lead on the issue, up from a seven-point lead in May. They also lead on the war in Iraq 45% to 37%, after leading by just two points in May and trailing the Democrats in April…
Democrats continue to hold the lead on the issues of health care, Social Security and education. While Democrats have a 10-point advantage on health care, that’s down from the 18-point lead the party had a month ago.

Conservatives score wins in EU parliament voting

BRUSSELS – Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and other nations.

Some right-leaning parties said the results vindicated their reluctance to spend more on company bailouts and fiscal stimulus to combat the global economic crisis.

The European Union said center-right parties were expected to take the most seats — 267 — in the 736-member parliament. Center-left parties were headed for 159 seats. The remainder were expected to go to smaller groupings.

Right-leaning governments were ahead of the opposition in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, while conservative opposition parties were leading in Britain and Spain.

Greece was a notable exception, where the governing conservatives were headed for defeat in the wake of corruption scandals and economic woes.

Germans handed a lackluster victory to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and a historic defeat to their center-left rivals in the European Parliament vote months before a national election.

The Social Democrats got an unexpectedly dismal 20.8 percent — the party's worst showing since World War II in any nationwide election.

Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and a regional sister party won 37.8 percent, down from 44.5 percent five years ago. But the outcome was enough to boost Merkel's hopes of ending the tense left-right "grand coalition" that has led the European Union's most populous nation since 2005, and replacing it with a center-right government.

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EU rejection of Obamanomics~~~

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls -
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Most voters continue to approve of the job President Obama is doing, but, as is often the case, the devil is in the details.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of U.S. voters agree with the president that the nation’s ongoing economic problems are due to the recession that began under the Bush administration and don’t blame the actions Obama’s taken since assuming office.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters still say the president is a good or excellent leader, although this number is at the lowest level of his presidency to date. Obama also hit his lowest reading ever in the Rasmusen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll at the end of the week, although it remains to be seen whether this is a temporary reaction to recent news or something more substantive.
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So while people disagree with Obama on how he is handling the recession that began under Bush, overall, they think he's an excellent leader.

Oh yeah, this was also a Rasmussum Poll. So you can find all sorts of data that will say my guy is better than your guy, etc. We'll know better in this next year. It will be crucial for the Republicans to win back some seats next election.

There was always a bit of hocus-pocus to the Geithner Plan and, particularly, the stress tests. The markets needed to see some sort of coherent plan plan coming out of Treasury; they tanked in February when the initial rollout of the Geithner plan was woefully short on details. Treasury couldn't just sit around and do nothing, even if -- and perhaps specifically if -- they thought the crisis was indeed being perpetuated by a certain amount of irrational despair.

But the goal of the Geitherner plan was never about the toxic assets themselves, and always to get capital flowing again in a sustainable way. If that is what's happening, and it seems to be, the plan may be a victim of its own success.

http://tinyurl.com/my5let

This is nit picking, and it won't change anything. Sotomayor is quallified and the Country would Like to see some diversity in its highest Court.

The Pubs really need to calm the hell down, they have absorbed too much Fox News and it is sending them on a long jaunt through paranoia, Again.

Next?

Lets END Don't Ask Don't Tell. Its about equality.

Dealing with the country's most troubling challenges requires the diligent efforts of well-intentioned adults not allegiance to partisan absolutism. Fixing one's political star to hard-right propaganda and talking trash about a president who is trying to change the course of a foundering ship of state is about as "un-American" as it gets.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/davidow/125