Comments on: The Rights Questions For Sotomayor

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:57:30 +0000

Spartacus: That hardly tells the whole story. FDR was able to put together a Dem Party coalition that consisted of Northern blacks and Southern white segregationists. (All the famous white segregationists, Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Bull Connor, Robert Byrd, etc. were Democrats.) Only in the Deep South did blacks vote Republican.

Why wouldn't blacks mind being in the same Dem Party coalition with white segregationists? Because of *economics*. FDR promised handouts to the blacks, and to the white poor, and they all responded with their votes.

The Republican Party, being a mostly capitalist party, can't outbid the Dem Party when it comes to handouts. And because the free market gives you the right to decide what you want to do with your money. If you don't want to help blacks with it, then so be it. But that effectively closed the door on blacks, since they had no internal sources of education and training to draw on, as the Jews had done.

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Thu, 28 May 2009 15:33:28 +0000

Sinz: Your view of why minorities favor Dems seems to based on a very select piece of history. Minorities don’t favor Dems b/c of affirmative action. Minorities favor Dems b/c of the racial hostility, or at best, indifference to racial discrimination that is too often present among conservatives and the GOP. Affirmative action was an attempt to reverse the effects of this country’s long history of racial discrimination. It may not have been a perfect remedy, but conservatives and the GOP seem to think that the imperfection of the remedy means that the underlying problem never existed.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:34:52 +0000

krove: My family was poor--probably not much wealthier than Sotomayor's family. (We lived at the Ralph Kramden level of wealth and income.)

The reason I reached a different conclusion than Sotomayor, was that I and my family are white. Hence we could never buy into the racialist ideas of affirmative action and reparations, which have tipped so many minorities toward the Dems.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:40:49 +0000

krove sez: "On the other hand, I would like to see any of her critics last one day in the housing projects of the Bronx. "

I *lived* there. I was born there. I grew up there.

Surprise!

The difference is, what I saw there made me a CONSERVATIVE. I saw how liberals like you turned the Bronx into a crime-ridden, graffiti-ridden, drug-ridden, arson-ridden pesthole.

By: SFTor

SFTor — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:33:34 +0000

I find it interesting that the Huffington Post is featuring an article where abortion proponents aren’t too sure about Sotomayor’s views on abortion.Could it be that both are getting a little bit here?

By: krove

krove — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:07:36 +0000

This is where I usually attempt to say something clever, but I really dont know what to say. I dont understand the law or legal reasoning well enough to have a truly informed opinion about Sonia Sotomayor, and since so much of what they do at her level deals with technicalities and case law I just am not equipped to fully understand, I can really only base my judgments on her achievements as a person. What I see is someone who was the top student pretty much everywhere she went, and who then went on and served for years as a judge, racking up years of service and accomplishment. Shes done much more with her life than I probably ever will, and with a much harder path to success than I had. To then listen that she is somehow stupid or was just given what she earned because of her skin color just doesnt make any damned sense to me at all. A couple years ago I looked at Sam Alito and John Roberts and saw the same thing- really bright people who had accomplished a lot, worked hard, and made something exceptional of themselves.

Maybe that is what is the basis of so many of the attacks the past 36 hours. She is better than Mike Huckabee, and she had the audacity to do it while having a vagina and an exotic last name.

HT BJ

By: krove

krove — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:03:15 +0000

Here you go some red meat to fight over.

Today, Judge Sotomayors culinary tastes range from tuna fish and cottage cheese for lunch with clerks in her chambers, to her standard order at the Blue Ribbon Bakery: smoked sturgeon on toast, with Dijon mustard, onions and capers. She works out three times a week, putting in three miles on the treadmill in the courts gym. Divorced and with no children, she enjoys the ballet and theater and lives in a condominium in Greenwich Village both a subway ride and a world away from the housing projects where she grew up.

Go with the Dijon mustard attack. It worked so well on Obama didn't it.

Go to it.

By: krove

krove — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:58:55 +0000

I think Sotomayor can handle being dragged through the mud without getting so much as a droplet on herself.

On the other hand, I would like to see any of her critics last one day in the housing projects of the Bronx.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:18 +0000

ottovbvs: You can tell Obama that we're happy to take him on--anywhere.

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, here are some questions worth asking of Sotomayor in the hearings:

1. When a law that is constitutional requires a result you don't like, what do you do? In other words, which matters most, fealty to the law--or the result?

2. Do you believe that interpretations of the Constitution should evolve to keep up with the times? If so, how would you decide when the Constitution needs updating?

3. Chief Justice John Roberts has said that he believes judges should act like umpires--calling the plays, not making them. How would you respond to him?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124338359957256605.html

By: ottovbvs

ottovbvs — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:55:48 +0000

Go ahead make Obama’s day. There is now circulating on the internet a quote from GHWB where he lauds Clarence Thomas’s “empathy.” So what’s empathy for Clarence can be empathy for Sonia. And as if Justice Scalia’s personal opinions have nothing to do with the legal positions he takes. If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. The point being this is a totally counterproductive effort. She’s going to get confirmed, she’s completely qualified, broadly liberal but completely mainstream, and has an incredible resume. Go ahead make Obama’s day.