Date: 2009-07-17 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ubiquitous-a.livejournal.com
Hey, I thought he actually asked one of the best questions during this entire process.....he asked, "Why do you want to be a Supreme Court Justice?" Somehow, that seems rather more germaine to me than one line in a speech she gave once. Not to mention which, he actually managed to bring some humor into the whole thing, which certainly was nice.

Date: 2009-07-17 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
OMFG RU F'N SERIOUS? Franken asked good questions that spoke to the judge's character as a human being. The bottom line in all this is that a jurist has to be concerned with the rights and wellbeing of other human beings. As Alito and Roberts both plainly said in their confirmation hearings. And were gleefully passed right on through by the Democrats on their respective committees.

Sessions on the other hand spoke to Sotomayor like she was his fucking MAID and he was trying to make it clear he wanted the bathroom floor scrubbed every Tuesday before poker night. I have never in my life heard a guy say in so many different ways that he wanted it to be perfectly clear that the judge understood that people have the right to own guns. Dude, say it again, she didn't understand you the first 150 times you said it. Jesus CHRIST!!

Date: 2009-07-17 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
You really, honestly don't know the meaning of the word "rhetoric," do you?

You're that fucking stupid. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Sotomayor is no more anti-gun than any other jurist. It's a fucking amdendment to the Constitution, it's pretty fucking black and white what the intent was. Sessions and his puppetmasters are just paranoid and listen to Limbaugh too much, who tells them to believe that any liberal and anyone Obama would choose is anti-gun. Which is y'know, stupid and insane, which is what we've come to expect from the nutball right, so it's par for the course, I guess.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blueduck37.livejournal.com
You know what he also doesn't know the meaning of? A conservational ice-breaker.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
God forf*ckingbid a guy should be friendly and polite with someone who's being grilled in front of a committee.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Dude. Stop typing. Every character you type, you only make more of a fool of yourself. Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Sooooo... you're really calling Supreme Court Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer "libtards?"

You're really, really doing that?

You... are a very. VERY special person. Yes indeed.

special

Date: 2009-07-17 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
in an olympic kind of way. (apologies to all disabled people)

Dumb bastard kept trying to gnaw on the hurdles.

Date: 2009-07-18 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
He's too special for the Special Olympics.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Yeeeeess. Even definitions pulled from dictionary.reference.com are taken out of context. You so da champ at THAT.

Of COURSE it's insincere, you fucking retard; it's insincere because (a) I don't take anything you say seriously and (b) it's all bullshit anyway!! Don't you GET IT YET??

Date: 2009-07-19 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donolectic.livejournal.com
Strap on your helmet and hold tight to your gold star little buddy! Lookit you go!

Date: 2009-07-17 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polyanarch.livejournal.com
The Joke from Minnesota

Date: 2009-07-17 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polyanarch.livejournal.com
I'll keep laughing for 6 more years. I sure will be. I'm glad I'm not from Minnesota -eh? I'd be dying of embarrassment right about now.

Date: 2009-07-17 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jblaque.livejournal.com
"I'll keep laughing for 6 more years."

*snort*

Yeah, you do that, sport. And all the while, Franken will be busy in the United States Senate, stifling your side's votes.

He who laughs last, laughs best. :)

Date: 2009-07-17 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polyanarch.livejournal.com
I'm an anarchist: I don't have sides.

Date: 2009-07-17 07:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jblaque.livejournal.com
Ah, well then... I take it back. But good luck with the anarchy thing!

Date: 2009-07-17 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polyanarch.livejournal.com
So far so good.
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Date: 2009-07-18 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yes-justice.livejournal.com
Good luck with the homphobia thing.

Date: 2009-07-19 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donolectic.livejournal.com
Only if they're not self-loathing, don't vote against equal rights, and have a nice dick.

Date: 2009-07-20 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jblaque.livejournal.com
Here's to your keyboard commando "anarchist" movement...

Image

Date: 2009-07-17 09:01 pm (UTC)
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Date: 2009-07-18 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com
Anarchy = third period gym, but forever.

When I'm not lazy I'll link to the SomethingPositive reference comic.

Image (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12102002.shtml)
via S*P (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12102002.shtml)
Edited Date: 2009-07-18 07:00 pm (UTC)

You obviously don't understand anarchy

Date: 2009-07-19 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com
this is totes how it goes

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From: [identity profile] dr-pepper-spray.livejournal.com
I would have been more embarrassed for the people who voted for a washed up b-movie cowboy to be their Governor, but no less then for the country who voted for that same stooge to be their President...Twice!
From: [identity profile] panteraonca.livejournal.com
And now...that same state has the Governator. And we're in serious trouble as a result. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP VOTING FOR MOVIE STARS.

Date: 2009-07-19 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donolectic.livejournal.com
I'd be dying of embarrassment right about now.

Why?

And by this logic, I'm surprised the entire state of Texas hasn't keeled over with the number of winnars they've produced.

Date: 2009-07-17 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blueduck37.livejournal.com
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you haven't been watching the hearings in their entirety, and instead are relying on the selected clips shown on right-wing blogs, talk radio, and Fox News.

I, however, have (sadly) been watching/listening to the hearings in full all week, and found Sen. Franken's questioning to be among the more intelligent... an initial attempt at humor (evil!) aside. In particular, I liked his lengthy debate with Sotomayor on the important issue of net neutrality, an issue that often doesn't get much press.

It certainly was an improvement over the openly condescending (and quietly racist) berating that she was getting from the right side of the panel who acknowledged that she'll be confirmed but berated her anyway (focusing instead on one comment she made, and one ruling she made in her lengthy career) all while lamenting how white Christian males just can't catch a break in America anymore.

Go do a survey on the streets of what people took away from these hearings and what Senators left impressions on them (and what kind) and I assure that no one will be thinking of (or remember) the newbie's Perry Mason joke.

But you go ahead and enjoy it.

Date: 2009-07-17 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
in her lengthy career

No kidding, man; when she took the bench she's on now my hair was still dark. Thassa long time.

Date: 2009-07-17 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
talk about focusing on irrelevancies. Frankly, Sotomayor would have been perfectly justified in telling Sessions to fuck off, every time he opened his lying racist mouth.

Date: 2009-07-17 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
Not everyone can be as brilliant as Sarah Palin.

Date: 2009-07-17 09:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-07-18 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com
It's funny because Al Franken asked a silly question to break the ice instead of a stupid one to hopefully anger Sotomayor.

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