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Bull. Now he pretends to be a moderate? The record says otherwise.
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Oh puhleeeeze, if Obama put Jesus himself up there, Republicans would declare Him too far out of the mainstream (read-not a batcrap crazeee, KKK supporting right-wing lugnut ) and still vote Him down.
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Oh Trent, nice to see you still have your GOP chops by blaming Obama for McConnellâs unConstitutional obstruction.
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â, so many of Obamaâs nominees have been so bad and so farâ
Havenât heard that one till now.
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You know we´ve descended a long way when we start waxing nostalgic for the halcyon days of Trent Lott as Majority Leader.
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I am glad he surfaced, reminds me of how happy I was to see him disappear.
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Yeah, I was actually starting to think Trent Lott was not one of the cynical, lying assholes who lead the change of the Republican Party from pragmatist to ideological under Reagan, but this reminded me why he and his surviving colleagues Grassley and Hatch are actually the ones not to be trusted.
Kegan and Sotomayor are far to the left? They were further to the right than the people they replaced. The conservatives usually can play this card because people let them. Guys like Scalia, Thomas and so on are considered ok because they narrowly read the Constitution when it suits them. Anybody else is a liberal that is too far to the left.
Textualism is not something that is real. Or at least the historical way of reading the Constitution. If you want to go back it is sort of all over the place about how judges want to do it and activisim is usually more likely to come from the right than the left outside of a few instances.
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Sorry, that dog is just not hunting, Senator Lott.
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ââŚand then we wouldnât have had all these problemsâŚWait. Damn! I did it again!â
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Itâs always nice to see the same thing said with different words.
âIf they were qualified by education, experience, and demeanor and had no other side problem, my predisposition was to be for them,â
âThis appointment could shift the balance of the Supreme Court from 5-4 one way to 5-4 the other way for years. And, you know, that is a problem.â
So youâd gladly vote for anyone with the education, experience and demeanor; however actually having a left leaning court is a problem. Do you see where your BS kind of falls apart there?
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We never did get to the real story of why Lott just up and packed his bags, quit his job and fled Washington DC practically overnight, did we? I guess he just wanted to spend more time with his familyâŚ
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So I guess he thinks Sotomayor and Kagan are bad, when they generally vote along the lines of Ginsburg who says he voted for? Lott is a typical GOP hypocrite and he should stick to singing the praises of Strom Thurmond.
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Or his lawyer.
I hate it when I agree with Trent Lott.
Trent Lott:
I wouldnât be surprised to see Chuck give him a hearing
By âhimâ, maybe Lott (a male southern red-state Republican) didnât consciously mean âgenderâ âhimâ. OTOH, it seems fairly safe to conclude that he [sic] did NOT consciously intend âgenericâ âhimâ in the sense of âperson of either genderâ, or else weâd expect him [sic] to have clarified that.
So, weâre left with whether Lott (a male southern red-state Republican) unconsciously intended âmaleâ âhimâ, or else, based on absolutely no evidence that he [sic] ever in his entire life having intended to convey such a meaning in his [sic] use of the word âhimâ, that Lott (a male southern state Republican) unconsciously meant âgenericâ âhimâ in the sense of 'person of either gender.
Lott (a southern red-sate Republican) does go out of his [sic] way to point out that, over a generation ago and 2 presidents ago, when he [sic] was serving as a U.S. senator, he [sic] showed ⌠something or other (that he [sic] was willing to show his [sic] sportinâ side, or political calculation, WTF knows) in voting for a [once] ânot maleâ nominee.
But this âhimâ person in the White House now has been so patently terrible with judicial nominations that he [Lott, a WHITE male southern red state Republican] does not even need to detail in what ways he [that Democrat president] has been terrible, such that it otherwise may, or may not, have to do with having nominated two consecutive not-males to the SCOTUS, yet nonetheless we canât put that consideration, or either of them, into the hopper in drawing reasonable inferences as to what meaning this white male southern Republican meant to convey by the word âhimâ.
From all this, I suggest itâs reasonable to conclude that the word âdifferentlyâ, Lott mean to qualify just the optics of the situation.
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âThe problem is that in my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of
Republicans, and certainly in the opinion apparently of McConnell, so
many of Obamaâs nominees have been so bad and so far left that the trust
factor is not there,â
Sotomayor was appointed to the district court by GHW Bush, and was generally considered a centrist. When Clinton nominated her to the appeals court, Republicans tried to obstruct because they were afraid she would be the first hispanic Scotus justice.
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Of course they would. Jesus was a Jew.
You MUST REPLACE a dead Opus Dei Catholic Federalist Society member with ANOTHER Opus Dei Catholic Federalist Society Member. Itâs in the Constitution. Just ask Justice Thomas.
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