Discussion for article #246069
Did you ever buy porn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high?
Like, in that exact order, or what? I may have to consult my notes…
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So, are you legally brilliant yet the most scheming do-nothing do-gooder in the history of the planet? Granted, it’s a lifetime appointment, but is the enema really necessary too?
Pretty crazy that very few of the Republican aspirants for President would qualify for the Supreme Court, based upon these questions.
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Yes. No. Yes. A few times.
I guess that disqualifies me.
All told, Sotomayor’s questionnaire response totaled more than 5,000 pages.
(picks myself up off the floor) Good god, War and Peace is only a little more than 1200 pages!
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Does “junior high” modify the first two items in the list or just the last one?
TPM:
Among the questions Kennedy was asked: Have you ever engaged in kinky sex?
Is that supposed to be a qualifying or disqualifying criteria? Because I’m really not sure we’d want a Supreme Court Justice who’d never, in their entire life, had any kind of kinky sex.
I mean, that’s just sad. Not to mention that it would probably lead to a really cranky and resentful jurisprudence.
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Republican candidates don’t get those questions. They get these instead:
Guns - good, or awesome?
Taxes - please explain why they’re unconstitutional.
Affordable Care Act - Please explain why it’s exactly like the policies of Hitler’s Germany.
Abortion - Do you support the death penalty for abortion patients, abortion providers, or both?
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More like, are you a member of the Federalist Society?
You’re in.
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Recently I was at my local barber waiting for a trim and reading the Playboy interview (yes, just for the articles) with Sanjay Gupta. One of the questions he was asked was why he turned down the surgeon general position. He said the vetting process, FBI etc. looked at not only his immediate family but delved into his relatives backgrounds. Even though they had little to hide and did not have anything suspect he said it was one of the reasons why he declined the job. You have to wonder why they have to go that far into the family tree.
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Shorter republican’t: Will you uphold our rule of oppression? *Yes.*Vetted. Will you obstruct at every opportunity? Yes. Deep dive complete.
This is very troublesome to me.
How can we expect people who have approximately 0 real life experience (as judged by their ability to not have gotten into ANY shenanigans while growing up) to be good judges of other people?
People are flawed. Many people who end up in the court systems especially so.
It would seem to me that we’d get much better judges if we didn’t insist on them achieving sainthood as a prerequisite for service…
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Did you ever buy porn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times?
I lost count
edit: Wait does “have sex” mean with someone else or does by yourself count too?
Those are easy…
Did you ever buy porn — nope, but I do enjoy reading erotica,
sniff glue — nope and when given the opportunity I did not inhale either, I don’t need a drug to “make me happy”,
have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times? — nope, was a late bloomer
got something, anything harder to answer???
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OH but remember that was single spaced…
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Define kinky… your kinky, is not the person sitting next to you definition, and more than likely not you partners definition…
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I’m surprised anyone would subject themselves to this nonsense. Do you think Oliver Wendell Holmes had to endure crap like this? We have become so completely distracted by BS that I am frequently amazed the lights actually come on every day.
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Not really, considering how much imaginary hay the GOP tried to make out of President Obama’s connections to his forner pastor, Rev. Wright, and a guy he barely met at a couple fundraisers who was once part of the WeatherUnderground, Bill Ayers.
I’m not saying they actually need to dig that deep into someone’s family tree; I’m just saying that the why of it is pretty straightforward.
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According to Tolstoy then, Sotomayor’s family history must have been “really unhappy”!
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