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.
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!!
However the wise latina is anti-gun ownership and has ignored the Heller decision. So Sessions had every right to say what he did.
By the way, care to provide the 150 times Sessions talked about gun rights? or is this just another lie, like the millions of scientists or the 5 million of people that were in the National Mall?
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.
Why yes, I do know what rhetoric is. Although it's obvious that you don't, that is unless you apply only this part of the definition: insincere or grandiloquent language. In which case that suits you perfectly as nothing you say is sincere and nor can be taken seriously.
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??
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!
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.
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.
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Date: 2009-07-17 04:46 pm (UTC)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!!
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Date: 2009-07-17 04:51 pm (UTC)However the wise latina is anti-gun ownership and has ignored the Heller decision. So Sessions had every right to say what he did.
By the way, care to provide the 150 times Sessions talked about gun rights? or is this just another lie, like the millions of scientists or the 5 million of people that were in the National Mall?
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Date: 2009-07-17 05:11 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-07-17 06:57 pm (UTC)You're really, really doing that?
You... are a very. VERY special person. Yes indeed.
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Date: 2009-07-17 09:00 pm (UTC)Dumb bastard kept trying to gnaw on the hurdles.
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Date: 2009-07-17 06:59 pm (UTC)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??
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Date: 2009-07-17 07:32 pm (UTC)*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. :)
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Date: 2009-07-18 02:31 pm (UTC)When I'm not lazy I'll link to the SomethingPositive reference comic.
via S*P (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12102002.shtml)
You obviously don't understand anarchy
Date: 2009-07-19 04:43 am (UTC)Preperation H comes in a two pack, and there's a sale.
Date: 2009-07-17 09:21 pm (UTC)Re: Preperation H comes in a two pack, and there's a sale.
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Date: 2009-07-19 09:14 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-07-17 05:05 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-07-17 05:14 pm (UTC)No kidding, man; when she took the bench she's on now my hair was still dark. Thassa long time.
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