Great job, Graham and Sessions

The Republicans are doing a great job of showing Americans what this president believes a SC judge should be. They'ree doing their job with tactfulness and class (unlike what we see from rabid dems when it's a Bush or Reagan nominee). I see from the comments, like "white cracker" and "racsist" and even "gay" attributed to the Republicans that the same nasty, rediculous, idiotic and childish Salon posters are enjoying themselves. You're all so much smarter than Graham and Sessions and Kyl and Hatch, we know that; you tell us all the time in your own nasty way.

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A Bush nominee like Harriet Myers, perhaps ? That woman wasn't equipped to sit on a local water treatment board, let alone the highest court in the land, but look at who she worked for.

Perhaps if the R's could find someone other than a prick like Scalia or an ignoramus like Thomas, maybe they wouldn't have so much conflict. Wasn't it Samuel Alito who gave us the signing statement, saying that a president could ignore a law simply because he wanted to ?

I think it's funny that an ass like Sessions, who couldn't get a judgeship 20 years ago because he was too much of a doofus even for the south, is trying to play a little catch up here. And failing miserably, I might add.

of the Supreme Court and the Senate are white males who offer nothing but white male perspectives in their decision-making, such as deciding that women are second-class citizens who don't deserve the right to make the decisions about their own bodies just as men always have.

The Republicans are doing a great job of showing Americans what this president believes a SC judge should be. They'ree doing their job with tactfulness and class (unlike what we see from rabid dems when it's a Bush or Reagan nominee). I see from the comments, like "white cracker" and "racsist" and even "gay" attributed to the Republicans that the same nasty, rediculous, idiotic and childish Salon posters are enjoying themselves. You're all so much smarter than Graham and Sessions and Kyl and Hatch, we know that; you tell us all the time in your own nasty way.

"So why did a republican mention "baring a complete meltdown"? Do you think they would say this to a man?"

No way. But this is the bigoted 'southern gentlemen' show we are talking about. In Graham's initial meeting with with Sotomayor, he said he was "deeply disturbed"-I agree. Sessions was against whoever was nominated, and a woman nominee only made it more so. Both men could only snipe at Sotomayor-so, borrowing from Glenda the Good Witch, I say, "You have no power here-begone, before someone drops a house on you."

"Now what standard do I apply? I can assure you that if I apply Sen. Obama's standard to your nomination...."

Looks like someone is still bitter about Sen. McCain's loss.

They are merely so partisan as to be irrelevant.

Some of you Obama-bots are truly naive. If you really think Obama is going to nominate a real liberal for the next opening on the Supreme Court. Why didn't he do that this time? There is no gaurantee he'll get another chance to put someone on the court. This might be his only chance to do so. If he was going to nominate a real liberal, he would done it this time. He didn't, he nominated a centrists. Obama is not a liberal, get that through your heads. He doesn't have some master brilliant plan to achieve his goals. He isn't an 11-dimension chess player. What you see is what you get. Pay attention to what he does and stop listening to his flowery speeches. The words usually don't match his actions.

I think the republicans do protest too much. Sotomayor is such a centrists, possibley even a right-of-center centrists. Too bad Obama didn't nominate a true liberal. What a wasted oppurtunity to help reshape the court. Thanks Obama, thanks for nothing. Anyway the republicans are happy as shit with her, they just won't admit it. They have to put up a pretense of finding her objectionable. It's all a show.

Self serving, hypocritical filth.

BTW, Does anyone else think that Lindsay Graham seems like a closeted gay version of David Brent? I'd love to see Ricky Gervais do an impersonation.

I don't think that there could be anything worse than having to sit there and listening to all the senators (pro and con) talk about you and just have to sit there and smile. Not even the senators themselves have to stay there all the time. (Notice in the photo that only a few of the senators are actually present.) They don't have to sit around to listen to all the BS flow but she does. Someday, there will be a nominee who will just say, "I'm sorry but sitting there an listening to it all is just like fingernails on a chalk board to me. I'll take a pass on it, despite the honor."

"Jesus! You really are a bumper sticker liberal aren't you. I am about as left as one can be, generally, but this sort of polemical incitement really does nothing. It certainly doesn't do any good here on salon."

So, should I write a really long analysis of the Federalist society and post it here? I think what I said pretty much sums up my opinion of the GOP version of justice which was the point.

I'm not going to spend an hour or two coming up with lots of details for the letters section just to state the obvious.

It is highly likely that Obama will have another seat to fill on the SCOTUS, especially if he is reelected in 2012.

Sotomayor seems pretty moderate, but she is replacing a moderate.

And if, say, Antonin Scalia goes on the great duck hunt in the sky in 2010, Obama could pick Jeanne Garafalo to replace him if he felt like it. When the inevitable GOP screaming and vapors begins, his ready answer is "You people behaved like this when I picked a moderate. You love to say "No!" just to say "No!" I tried bipartisanship, and you refused to play ball. Now I control congress, and the majority of governorships (thanks again, Palin and Sanford!), so I don't need you any more."