Sotomayor critics step up rhetoric before hearing
WASHINGTON – Conservatives stepped up their criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday, but it was unclear how far Senate Republicans were willing to go to create bumps in what appears to be a smooth road to confirmation for President Barack Obama's first high-court choice.
Even as the Senate's top Republican suggested that Sotomayor let racial bias cloud her rulings, he and other GOP senators refused to say whether they would accede to conservative activists' demands to try to delay a final vote to confirm her until September. At the same time, the National Rifle Association raised what it called "very serious concerns" about Sotomayor based on her stance on weapons rights, yet it stopped short of opposing her, citing its "respect for the confirmation process."
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Got that? ZOMG TEH EEEEVIL EXTREMIST NRA isn't opposing Sotomayor. The same NRA we are told ad nauseum is "over the top" in their rhetoric, an "extremist group" with a "right wing agenda" that exists only to "spew propaganda". That NRA.
The same damn NRA that needs to sh!t or get off the pot with regards to this nomination - if this is extremism, I'd hate to see what the NRA's detractors would say if the NRA actually, you know, formed a damned opinion...
That is all.
Thanks to reader, commenter, and good friend brad_in_ma for e-mailing me this story.
3 comments:
The NRA has been as forceful - and effective - as a kleenex in a hurricane.
In the past ten years they have, uh, filed suit against Chicago and San Fran after Heller did the heavy lifting ?
In the past 20 years they have failed to demonstrate there is no inherent danger in an 11 round magazine.
In the past 30 years they let legislation pass that was they described as 'so blatantly unconstitutional it will be overturned within 6 months'. Long six months that has been fellas. Long six months.
Opposing Sotomayor is a BAD BAD political move unless she was a serious opponent of RKBA, which she's not.
she's certainly not our friend, but she's not a Brady shill either.
Oppose Sotomayor and you piss of women and Hispanics. And that's very bad politics, which is after all, where the battles get won.
Yeah, Sotomeyer is no more an opponent of the Second Amendment then her god, tao, is.
Now pull the other one.
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