This whole Sonia Sotomayor thing is just smoke up our asses. Sure, anybody with a brain knew Obama would appoint a Hispanic woman, but the backlash? Wow.
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First we’ve got Boehner and the gang threatening to fillibuster. Oh, didn’t the GOP threaten to eliminate the minority’s right to filibuster judicial nominations in 2004? Oh yeah, they did. It’s cool now, though.
Then, there’s the weird empathy argument. (Maybe the Supreme Court should be filled with unfeeling robots?)
Nobody is making the argument that people rise to the challenge they are faced with. Souter did, but the right probably hates him for it. Alito and Roberts? Turns out they aren’t the heartless constitution burners some suspected.
What’s really happening is everybody is playing the game. I stroke my constintuency, I get re-elected. I appoint a Hispanic woman, I get re-elected. I hope. I talk crazy enough, and I get your attention.
It’s that or we’ve elected idiots to converse with the idiots in the media. And I prefer to think we have not elected idiots. It’d just be nice if they’d take this part of their job a little less seriously.
