The Liberal DoomsayerThe Liberal DoomsayerMy blog deals primarily with national politics in the U.S. as well as, on occasion, local politics in Pennsylvania. From time to time, I may have something to say about sports and entertainment as well. I try to interpret information that shapes the Articles
Turd Blossom's Tedious Estrada Tale
2009-05-28 21:04:00 (And I also had something to say here on a matter related to the former boss of the main subject of this post.)In today?s Murdoch Street Journal, ?political expert? and guru of his party?s last two major election losses (Karl Rove by name) pontificates on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama for the Supreme Court (yes, this is a recording ? I?ll try not to duplicate too much from this...and once more, I'm compelled to ask this question).Rove rehashes the case of Ricci v. DeStefano, about which I?m sure you will hear quite a bit during Sotomayor?s confirmation hearing?The Ricci case is an example: Whites were denied fire department promotions because of a clear racial quota. Ms. Sotomayor's refusal to hear their arguments won her stinging criticism from fellow Second Court of Appeals judge José Cabranes, a respected Clinton appointee.As noted here in this Slate article (from yesterday?s post)?When the case was argued before the Supreme Court last month, all of the j... More About: Turd , Tale
Wednesday Stuff
2009-05-28 05:27:00 Here are a few things to keep in mind while the media circus spins into overdrive concerning Judge Sotomayor, courtesy of People for the American Way......and speaking of human rights, Rachel Maddow tells us here that Bushie Ted Olson is teaming up with David Boies to fight the recent California ruling in favor of Proposition 8, though it thankfully kept existing gay marriages in tact; Olson has had a bit of an iconoclastic streak on other issues also, but it's still a bit shocking that he's actually "left" of Obama here, as Rachel notes...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and this has kind of a '60s feel, but I think I liked this better with Anouk Aimee and Jean-Paul Belmondo; God, is he wearing a Banlon shirt AND a turtleneck sweater?......and I hope J.B. really does feel good in the "great beyond" over this. More About: Stuff , Wednesday
And Another Bushco Lackey Departs
2009-05-27 23:52:00 I know the news cycle is currently dominated by a certain well-qualified Latina woman, but I should also point out this story, which tells us that Nancy Nord is stepping down from the Consumer Products Safety Commission effective June 1st.I would say that Nord ?ran? the CPSC, though if only to indicate that she did her best to ?run it? into the ground. Here is the evidence?This tells us that Nord blew off a hearing on defective toys because the hearing also would have included the testimony of child safety advocates (and Nord?s CPSC didn?t decide to test products until an incident was reported, and they negotiated every word of a recall alert with the manufacturer of a defective product).This tells us more about how Nord?s CSPC was clearly understaffed and underfunded, where a ?fox running the hen house? mentality ran rampant.This tells us that Nord actually opposed a bill that would have strengthened her own agency.This tells us how Nord was derelict on the issue of pool safety (pa...
Some Words About "Empathy"
2009-05-27 20:00:00 (And I also posted here - a lot to catch up on.)After reading this post by Adam B at The Daily Kos on the matter of judicial ?empathy,? I thought I should add a bit to it (and of course, the right wing is currently trying to turn ?empathy? into code language; re., Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will not employ her formidable intellect and knowledge of the law in her decisions but instead try to achieve some legal means to ?create law from the bench? as an ?activist judge? because she?s a woman/Latino/Democrat/liberal/progressive /all of the above).All of which is utter garbage, of course.Adam B. notes the role of ?empathy? in the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the High Court, but this notes the following from 2005 about the nomination of ?Strip Search Sammy? Alito?Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), told The New York Times they were pleased that Alito expressed empathy for the Religious Right belief that Supreme Court rulings maintaining church-state... More About: Words
Tuesday Stuff
2009-05-27 05:32:00 Still shooting for a return tomorrow - we'll see...In the meantime, it looks like The Poor Man Institute beat me to the punch here (h/t Atrios), but here I go anyway (with former pretend presidential candidate Mike Huckabee channeling Richard Beymer a bit here)......"Worst Persons" (TV blogger David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun tries to make fun of K.O. and Rachel Maddow by comparing them to Nazi propagandists in the '30s - nice; Lt. Pete Hegseth is next with more of this "eight-plus-years-of-safety-since-9/11" crap - yeah, usually we should leave our service people alone, but this clown is an exception, and a nod to Atrios to boot; Laura Ingraham takes it, though, for alleging that torture is somehow OK if it only happens three times...wonder if she got her law degree from the same place as Christine Flowers - really don't want to contemplate the bizarro universe of these people)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and by the way, consid... More About: Stuff , Tuesday
Monday Stuff
2009-05-26 05:24:00 Oh, and just for the record, I should let you know that Mrs. Doomsy and I were privileged to spend a few wonderful days in New York City from which we have just returned, and we can assure you that nothing blew up and no "terrists" ran rampant at all (though the Yankees didn't do a whole hell of a lot against the Phils' pitching for the most part and managed to lose two of three at home, so I guess that counts as a tragedy - heh, heh)......and I may not be able to get back to the whole posting thing tomorrow, but hopefully no later than Wednesday. More About: Stuff , Monday
Sunday Stuff
2009-05-25 05:11:00 Here' K.O.'s Special Comment last Thursday highlighting the murderously insane lunacy that put our people in harm's way particularly in Iraq but also in Afghanistan; I feel I must put this up because, if nothing else, Keith's last six words express my most earnest wish...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and don't worry, I won't say anything about how metaphorical this song really is, even though it really is (this replaces the Osgood video, by the way; got sick of trying to fix the autoplay screwup - nice job, "Third Eye" Network!) More About: Stuff , Sunday
Where The Rubber Meets The Road (5/20/09)
2009-05-20 23:36:00 As reported in last Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer, here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week (the "turbo version" coming up here).HouseWar appropriations. Voting 368-60, the House approved $84.3 billion to fund U.S. combat operations through Sept. 30 and $12 billion for nonmilitary programs. Now awaiting Senate action, the bill (HR 2346) would provide payments to 170,000 troops whose enlistments were extended against their will after 9/11.A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate.Voting yes: John Adler (D., N.J.), Robert E. Andrews (D., N.J.), Robert A. Brady (D., Pa.), Michael N. Castle (R., Del.), Charles W. Dent (R., Pa.), Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), Jim Gerlach (R., Pa.), Tim Holden (D., Pa.), Frank A. LoBiondo (R., N.J.), Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.), Joseph R. Pitts (R., Pa.), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D., Pa.), Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), and Christopher H. Smith (R., N.J.).Hoping that Admiral Joe decides to "primary" Our Man Arlen ... More About: Road , Rubber , The Road
?Legal Eagle? Special Ed Weighs In On The New ?Supreme? For Souter
2009-05-20 23:11:00 (And I also posted here.)I suppose as far as the WaPo is concerned, it?s merely enough to note that today?s columnist, Ed Gillespie (picture above with one of his pals), ?was in charge of the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts and played a leading role in the confirmation of associate Justice Samuel Alito? prior to allowing the former counselor to Dubya to display his own particular brand of hackery once more?As President Obama decides on a Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice David Souter, Senate Republicans must decide whether they will abide by the standard they used in confirming Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer during Bill Clinton's first term, or the standard set by Democrats in the confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito during George W. Bush's second term. This is one instance where changing their previous position can be a principled approach.In 1993 and '94, Republicans voted overwhelmingly to confirm Clinton's no... More About: Legal , Special , Eagle
Tuesday Stuff
2009-05-20 04:48:00 I'll bet you never imagined that Rummy had a role in the Bushco Katrina frackup, did you? Well, along with the bit about the biblical verses on the intelligence briefings for Dubya and his pals, we learn that also from Rachel Maddow and author Robert Draper (giving Dubya the "Heisman" - heh)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and wow, I'll bet you also didn't know Chris Christie was a closet "teabagger" (from here). Color me shocked!......and I thus have a reason to put this up again......and I think these guys will be coming to the area in July, and here are the words. More About: Stuff , Tuesday
I Think That I Shall Never See A Poet As Bad As Huckabee
2009-05-19 22:47:00 I guess, when you?re a Repug who has utterly ceased to be relevant on the national stage any more, and you watch the progress of events in this country as it tries to rebuild from the wretched failures that occurred while your party was in charge, and you realize that you are not part of that process in any way, you feel irrelevant to the point where all you can do is engage in childish tactics of defiance.Oh, and I know that?s bound to happen when you?re pretty much goaded by our corporate media, which continues to ?report? on whether or not Nancy Pelosi voiced her objections to Bushco?s torture in 2002, 2003, or whenever (I?m not going to provide any more commentary on this matter except to point out how ridiculous it is; as BarbinMD at The Daily Kos says here, what is being ignored is the more-and-more-emerging reality that, instead of being used in the so-called ?ticking time bomb? scenario, as Darth Cheney and his acolytes claim, torture was used to try and forge a link between... More About: Poet , Huckabee
Abridged Future Inquirer Columnists, May 2009
2009-05-19 21:25:00 (I also posted here, and I ended up putting this out there "after hours" in case anyone missed it.)Well, it figures that The Sturdy Beggars would kick off the speculation as to who would end up as the next monthly columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer here (with Brendan Calling following up here ? hat tips for both to Atrios). So I guess I?d better get my nominations in pronto.I know D-Mac shut down his site a couple of months ago; he used to do this for the Daily News, but I think it fits here also. What follows are my list of candidates and their choice of topics?Thomas Capano (in his words) ? Hey, this says that we may have had a hand in the death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, somebody we tortured to manufacture a link to Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda as an excuse for the Iraq war. Why didn?t we just stuff him in a water cooler and shoot a couple of holes in it instead (here)? That would have worked just as well, if only Gerry had shut his mouth and Debbie had decided to have a memory... More About: Future , Columnists
Monday Stuff
2009-05-19 05:33:00 ?Worst Persons? (Harold Jackson of the Inky continues to sink in doo-do over the hiring of Torture Yoo, with K.O. drawing an apropos parallel to the mob here ? by the way, Will Bunch had a great rebuttal on this today - h/t Atrios; Sean Inanity criticizes Obama for replacing some U.S. Attorneys ? God, please let one of them be Mary Beth Buchanan! ? attempting to draw a parallel to Bushco?s politically motivated firing of nine of its attorneys?nice try, numb nuts; but Bill Orally wins it again for bemoaning the lack of privacy due to technology ? yeah, it?s not the fault of your ?stalker? producers, Falafel Boy, it?s the fault of ?technology??and by the way, utter no-class to cheer the demise of newspapers, you welp!)Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy?and maybe posting for one more day tomorrow and a little on Wednesday before I shut down for a few days for some R&R, as of now. More About: Stuff , Monday
A Case Study For Antonin Scalia
2009-05-19 05:04:00 (And I also posted here.)This story is probably a little old at this point, but I think it deserves comment based on this article in the New York Times today.It turns out that some law students at Fordham University, in a study of how information can be obtained online about famous people in particular (and probably many other people besides), compiled a dossier of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ; the story provides the following details?Why Justice Scalia? Well, the class had been discussing his recent dismissive comments about Internet privacy concerns at a conference. His summation, as reported by The Associated Press: ?Every single datum about my life is private? That?s silly.?A gauntlet of sorts had been thrown down ? though (class) Professor (Joel R.) Reidenberg said in an interview that he would disagree with that interpretation. The assignment, he said, was ?not about embarrassing anyone, not about targeting Scalia in the sense of choosing him because of anything about ... More About: Study , Case , Antonin Scalia
Friday Stuff
2009-05-16 05:06:00 Yeah, you knew I was going to include this, didn't you - kind of scuffling a bit at the moment, but it's early yet......"Still Bushed" (former Bushie Charlie Millard of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation moves $2 1/2 bil into the stock market just before it crashes, hitting about 44 million in this country, through Goldman Sachs and BlackRock - gee, wonder if that has anything to do with his attempts to get a job at those two firms?; Turd Blossom gets grilled for four hours over the U.S. Attorneys scandal before he's due to meet with a congressional committee over the matter; and Obama will proceed with "less than 20" of the 241 planned tribunals for the GITMO prisoners, this time with real courts and real due process, with information obtained through torture thrown out...for real - by the way, MSNBC, I'm getting pretty damn sick of that Applebee's ad I have to watch first before I grab these things)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Eco... More About: Stuff , Friday
A "Bang Bang" Return For The Mittster
2009-05-16 00:26:00 While Rick Perry hypes ?Teabagg?n 2.0? (here), Mark Sanford finds himself forced just about at gunpoint by the South Carolina State Senate to accept stimulus funds (here), and Sarah Palin fends off more ethics complaints (here), it may be easy to forget about a certain Willard Mitt Romney still lurking out there somewhere, vying for a place in the 2012 campaign (yes, I apologize for noting that ? I can?t deal with another national election campaign at this moment either).But just to make sure that a few hangers-on who still pay attention to the Repugs (such as your humble narrator) don?t forget, Romney gave a speech today to the NRA full of the typical ?red meat? bloviation you would expect to reach that values-voter ?base? that his party relies on, and which is shrinking with the passage of time (and by the way, there are no policy proposals or ideas at all ? for anyone who wonders how the Repugs became the party of near-irrelevance given what we currently face?.well, here?s the pr... More About: Bang , Return , Bang Bang
Where The Rubber Meets The Road (5/15/09)
2009-05-15 23:06:00 As reported in last Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer, here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week.(I should point out that I really don?t have much to say this week, mainly because almost all of these votes pertain to a couple of bills, S 386 and S 896, about which virtually everyone was in agreement.)(And one more thing ? I also posted here.)HousePredatory home lending. Voting 300-114, the House passed a bill (HR 1728) to outlaw practices associated with subprime loans and the U.S. housing meltdown. The bill requires lenders to keep a financial stake in loans they sell into the securities market; assigns legal liability to those who originate and securitize mortgages; bars loans to borrowers who show "no reasonable ability" to pay, and outlaws refinancings aimed mainly at generating fees for the lending industry.A yes vote was to pass the bill.Voting yes: John Adler (D., N.J.), Robert E. Andrews (D., N.J.), Robert A. Brady (D., ... More About: Road , Rubber , The Road
Thursday Stuff
2009-05-15 05:06:00 I'm still pretty damn angry at Joke Line for his insulting post yesterday, but I'll let former Brigadier General Janis Karpisnki explain once more what an idiot he is, as well as those who feel as if they don't want to see the horrors committed in their name, and I realize that includes most of this country - dear God (and she's spot-on once more about having international representation on this)......and at this point, I usually include a video pointing out once more how the Repugs are corrupt idiots who want to do nothing except consolidate power for their "base" and wage war on the middle class, but I think that, at the moment, that would demean the importance of contemplating what former Brigadier General Karpinski said, so I won't do it for now - instead, I'll just include this vid, for the benefit of probably the ten people out there who didn't get my reference in the "Army Experience Center" post title. More About: Stuff , Thursday
The U.S. Army Asks, "Are You Experienced?"
2009-05-15 00:25:00 Given that it?s Thursday, how nice it was to read something in the Philadelphia Inquirer and not find myself trying to control my gag reflex over more former-Senator-Man-On-Dog musings.This column, written by John Grant of Veterans for Peace in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., discusses the so-called ?Army Experience Center? in the Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast Philadelphia, which Grant quite rightly describes as ?an effort to sell the Army as a brand, like Disney, and it could one day be replicated in malls all over America.?Grant continues?The center's violent video games and simulations of shooting human targets seduce vulnerable teenagers into an "us-versus-them" mindset. The goal is recruitment.The Center takes up 14,000 square feet of mall space next to the Dave & Buster's game emporium. Dozens of video stations are available for adolescents as young as 13 to play a host of violent video games, such as "America's Army," which is designed around a mission involving simulated sh... More About: Experienced
So What Are "We" Supposed To Be About, Anyway?
2009-05-14 22:24:00 (Note: I try to forego posts where I more or less ?crank off? and leave that in the hands of my ?A list betters,? but after some reading on this topic, I feel that I have to say this.)You know, after hearing about the decision from President Obama to withhold more detainee abuse photos, as noted here, I really have to ask the question in the title of this post.And I?ll admit that I was only mildly peeved for awhile because, though I knew this was another capitulation in the name of some political calculation (since, as noted here, most of this country is still pretty somnambulant on this issue), I was focused on other issues at the time, rightly or wrongly, and didn?t pay attention to this matter as I should have.But then I read this post today from Glenn Greenwald, which, as is his usual style (to his credit), provided the literary equivalent of a cold slap in the face to your humble narrator. It made me realize anew that, yes, the photos Obama is holding back should be released. I...
Wednesday Stuff
2009-05-14 05:01:00 Thank you, Mr. Zelikow, for using the expertise you have and I don't to make the case for closing Guantanamo that I tried to make earlier today through criticizing Mitch McConnell......and oh noes!!! It's TEH SCARY GAY!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! (hat tips for these two to The Daily Kos)......and if that doesn't call for this response from Lewis Black (from "Red, White and Screwed" in '07), then I don't know what does - warning: bad words ahead......and after last night, I think I should keep it in a "family values" mode - won't say which "family," though; somewhere, I think Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill are smiling. More About: Stuff , Wednesday
More ?Ooga Booga!? Scare Antics From Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao
2009-05-13 23:35:00 (And I also posted here.)Yesterday brought us this from the U.S. Senate Minority Leader about the prisoners currently housed at Guantanamo, including the following...These men are exactly where they belong: locked up in a safe and secure prison and isolated from the American people, where they can do no harm. America has not been attacked at home since 9/11 because of the hard work of our Armed Forces, dedicated intelligence officials, the men and women at the Department of Homeland Security, and state and local law enforcement officials.?The Anthrax Attack,? Mitch ? remember???!!!Apparently not; he continues?But another reason we haven?t been attacked is because some men who are most likely to do so are locked up in Guantanamo. These inmates aren?t spectators. They?re the enemy. They?re the plotters, the planners, the funders, the ones who pull the trigger.Really? Then why do we learn the following from this story published immediately after Obama?s victory last November (in which ... More About: Antics
Tuesday Stuff
2009-05-13 05:15:00 "Worst Persons" (well lookee lookee here, boys and girls, we have the Inky making the list for giving a monthly feature to Torture Yoo - by the way, and don't tell anybody, but I just went to the paper's Opinion page online, and Yoo still doesn't have a pic with a legend telling readers that he's a contributing columnist...I can't think of a word to describe how sad it is to see Harold Jackson, and especially Bill Marimow, who once won a Pulitzer for God's sake, toeing the Tierney line like this; Eric Bolling of the Fix Business Channel - heh - first criticizes K.O. and the like for "frat house humor" when justifiably lampooning the "teabaggers," but he then ranks his guests as if they're on a baseball team and says that Barney Frank should be the "catcher"...the laughs never stop with these cretins because they never begin in the first place; but Greta Van Susteren of Fix Noise takes it for criticizing The Politico for an ambush interview of Todd Palin...aside from the hypoc... More About: Stuff , Tuesday
The Latest From The ?Dubya Legacy Salvage Project?
2009-05-13 00:01:00 (And I posted here too - this is a recording.)I really went back and forth concerning whether or not I should even waste my time with this, but I felt I had to.Last week, CBS Golf broadcaster Peter David (oops...my bad) Feherty quite rightly caused an outrage with a ridiculous, utter non-joke based on that tired remark about ?suppose (insert your three most hated people here ? usually ends up with a lawyer and two others) get out of an elevator, and you only have a gun with two bullets. What do you do,? and the punch line is that you ?shoot the lawyer twice,? or something like that (ha ha).Well, as noted here, Feherty?s supposed quip involved the murder of the two Democratic Party leaders in Congress. And I must admit that it?s shocking that, to date, there has been no comment on the matter from the CBS broadcasting network.Feherty made his remark in a column that appeared in something called ?D Magazine,? which I suppose has to do with the city of Dallas, Texas (I guess, though, th... More About: Project , Legacy , Dubya
Monday Stuff
2009-05-12 05:12:00 I think K.O. did something really special here in his methodical destruction of more stupid talking points by Bill Orally, this time about a certain Winston Spencer Churchill fellow (the wingers apparently feel a sense of kinship to the legendary Brit, and as usual, they're wrong on the facts yet again)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and oh yeah, it's another rockin' Monday (song ends about 30 seconds early, though). More About: Stuff
This Just In ? Arlen ?Conclusively Misspeaks? Again
2009-05-11 22:02:00 (And I also posted here.)The following appeared in yesterday?s interview with ?Snarlin? Arlen? Specter from yesterday?s New York Times magazine?Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?A: I sure do. There?s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.Not to worry, though ? the Times added the postscript of Specter saying that he flubbed the question based on the fact that he has new party allegiances now.Sure he does.And we also read the following?Q: Since the (essay Specter wrote in the current issue of The New York Review of Books) is a criticism of the Bush administration and its grab for power, why did you wait until Bush left office to publish it? It would have been forceful if you had published it when he was still president.A: Everything in that article I said years ago. I challenged the Terrorist Surveillance Program in Judiciary Committee hearings, w...
Saturday Stuff
2009-05-10 01:12:00 Posting is questionable for the early part of next week, by the way - lots of stuff "up in the air" at the moment.In the meantime, Fix Noise is BUSTED by Media Matters here......and in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, "Happy Mother's Day to all you muthas out there."Update: Oh, and by the way, that stupid White House Press Club dinner is tonight, which means that this is an opportunity to view how Stephen Colbert made his mark three years ago (here). More About: Stuff , Saturday
Friday Stuff
2009-05-09 05:11:00 K.O. talks with Jonathan Landay of McClatchy over this whole non-story of what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew, or didn't know, about Bushco torture based on a September 2002 briefing (Pelosi told Rachel Maddow that she wasn't told that waterboarding was going on, but apparently it was being considered, and there was a supposed legal rationale for it from Bybee, Yoo, Addington and the other "usual suspects" of our formerly ruling cabal...I think Landay does a good job here zeroing in on what really matters)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy..and yes, "Still Bushed" is still with us (more on the sham of Dubya's "Office Of Faith-Based Initiatives"...the only "bone" tossed to the Dubya "values voter" dead-enders out there was that idiotic conscience rule, supposedly allowing medical providers not to provide abortion counseling, and even THAT didn't happen until he was just about out of office...kudos to Keith for saying straight up about ho... More About: Stuff , Friday
Where The Rubber Meets The Road (5/8/09)
2009-05-08 23:46:00 As reported in last Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer, here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week.House2010-14 federal budget. Voting 233-193, the House adopted the conference report on a five-year Democratic budget (S Con Res 13) that for 2010 projects $3.4 trillion in spending, a $1.2 trillion deficit, $284 billion in interest payments on federal debt, and $130 billion for war in Afghanistan and Iraq.A yes vote was to adopt the budget plan.Voting yes: John Adler (D., N.J.), Robert E. Andrews (D., N.J.), Robert A. Brady (D., Pa.), Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), Tim Holden (D., Pa.), Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D., Pa.), and Joe Sestak (D., Pa.).Voting no: Michael N. Castle (R., Del.), Charles W. Dent (R., Pa.), Jim Gerlach (R., Pa.), Frank A. LoBiondo (R., N.J.), Joseph R. Pitts (R., Pa.), and Christopher H. Smith (R., N.J.).The party of ?No? strikes again (and these numbers may be skewed left a bit, but not by much,... More About: Road , Rubber , The Road
Another Flowers Fraud On Obama?s High Court Choice
More articles from this author:2009-05-08 21:29:00 I have to believe that the Philadelphia Daily News give column space to Christine Flowers on Friday because it will make our weekends more enjoyable to know that her dreck won?t appear again for seven days afterwards.She wastes more of our time here today on the question of who President Obama will choose as his Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice David Souter; after telling us that Obama ?still? hasn?t made his choice (is he supposed to be governed by sands running from an hourglass on this?), she implies that he?s busy making sure the demographics of his choice are satisfactory to the voters who elected him.And then she tells us this?This is the first time in more than a decade and a half that a Democratic president will be asking a majority Democratic Congress to approve his high court pick. The last was Bill Clinton, whose choice of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was graciously handled by both sides of the aisle: She was confirmed by a 96-3 vote.Don't expect to see those numbers this... More About: Fraud , Choice , High 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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