Cooter, you are better than that
 

The political world has changed since the early 1990s Penske.

Nowadays it is respectable and expected to oppose nominees on ideological grounds rather than simply bow to the will of the President. This is particularly true of those whose views are truly well outside the legal and popular mainstream.

Ginsberg was and is quite "liberal" in her views, but she is and was nowhere near as far off-center as Judge Brown. (Remember too, that we're talking of the politics of 12 years ago in the case of Ginsburg.) For you to accused JRBs detractors of racism is the purest nonsense.

S_A_M

Proposition 2
 

Better start stretching before the kid has to carry you to the hospital.

S_A_M

Proposition 2
 

I thought you were in special olympics, no? I've convinced my kids to donate in your name in lieu of Xmas gifts. Let me know if this whole act has been a lie, would you?

Another Shocker!
 

You, sir, are full of shit. It is not in the political interest of the Republican party to have Roe overturned. As long as they can jerk-off the babyjesi on the abortion issue and not really give them anything they won't. You think for a minute they are going to want to yank that plank out of their platform with the electorate so closely divided? You're nuts.* Bottom line is that both parties will keep any issue in play that will allow them to stay in power, and if you don't believe that, you have your head in the fucking sand.

* I don't think even fiscal conservatives necessarily like what the Republican party has been selling (on the spending side of the equation, at least) since Reagan's second term. If you can't even sell them, then you need the babyjesi -- or certainly their cash.

Proposition 2
 

You are pretty fake-impressive on the internet. When do you train if you are so busy posting crazy stuff here? Even fake-internet training takes a little time - do you keep a fake chart of your distances and pretend that you are posting on the board with a wireless laptop while you're "running"?

Look, clearly, logic is not your thing - everyone who communicates with you comes away feeling like they've wasted their time, I'm sure. That's obviously the case here - I've wasted my time trying to convince you of something obvious and clear.

Cooter, you are better than that
 

Heh.

I never did trust her -- something about her eyes. . .

Cooter, you are better than that
 

You need to much more careful who you enlist. Remember the Real Jesus got taken down by a diciple. And who got you kicked off here last time?

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

What the fuck do the Dems have to do with the Federal budget?

2 things they can do besides bitching-

Get second jobs and donate the earnings to Treasury.

or

Stop spending money on elections that can't win (any presidential/ Southern Senate, etc.) and donate the money to the treasury.

They do understand that Genna Davis or Jimmy Smits winning the White House doesn't really give them power, don't they?

Cooter, you are better than that
 

I disagree. Ginsburg was as far left as you can get in mainstream American politics. JRB is no more right than at least 22% of the current Court and possibly 33% incl. Roberts. Her educational experience and professional background as a jurist are impeccable. There is no reason she should not be approved, other than blatant partisan politics. Fortunately I don't think the dimwits have the votes. The wrath of the babyjesi is mighty.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

As you may not have noted from the wikpedia article:

• The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in May 1938, chaired by Martin Dies and co-chaired by Samuel Dickstein, himself named in the Venona project as a Soviet agent. In pre-war years and during World War II it was known as the Dies Committee. Its work was supposed to be aimed mostly at German-American involvement in Nazi and KKK activity. As to investigations into the activities of the "Klan," the Committee actually did little. When HUAC's chief counsel Ernest Adamson announced that: "The committee has decided that it lacks sufficient data on which to base a probe," committee member John E. Rankin added: "After all, the KKK is an old American institution." Instead of the Klan, HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the American Communist Party had infiltrated the Works Progress Administration, including the Federal Theatre Project.
  
  In 1938 Hallie Flanagan, the head of the Federal Theatre Project, was subpoenaed to appear before the committee to answer the charge that the project was overrun with communists. Flanagan was called to testify for only a part of one day, while a clerk from the project was called in for two entire days. It was during this investigation that one of the committee members famously asked Flanagan whether the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was a member of the Communist Party.
  
  In 1939 the committee investigated leaders of the American Youth Congress, a Comintern affiliate organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_U...ties_Committee (emphasis supplied)

All while we weren't at war with any communist state. Not a complaint from the conservatives.

Proposition 2
 

R u kidding? 6:02 is 3rd gear. But in deference to the educational experience I am supposed to be conferring on the kid we do stretch, although personally I have never been that into it.

Proposition 2
 

Have them send me the cash and I will apply it appropriately. Also, remind your wife she owes me reimbursement for my plane fare to Detroit for the last go-round.

Just Curious
 

LBJ's nomination of Justice Abe Fortas for Chief -- filibustered by Republicans until after the election. Then Abe resigned and Nixon appointed Warren Burger as Chief and (I think) Blackmun to Abe's AJ slot.

Another Shocker!
 

I think different factions of the REpublican party have different views of the issue. I am not disputing that you capture one faction's position above., however, the babyjesi of the party have more principle and moral clarity than that and they are running the show at this point. Plus it is an awful decision and should be turned over on the basis of its incoherency and lack of grounding in the constitution. The Fed Soc wing of the party believes that.

Another Shocker!
 

Except that everyone else is beginning to realize the emporer has no clothes.