Sotomayor Vote Will Wait While GOP Deliberates

[last_texas_dem]

Source: Congressional Quarterly

>>>>Senate Republicans intend to slow down Judiciary Committee action on the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, but all signs point to a relatively smooth path to confirmation.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he would not support any effort to block a floor vote on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and does not expect any of his fellow Republicans to do so either.

“I don’t know of any Republicans who think that will be necessary,” McConnell, R-Ky., who intends to vote against Sotomatory’s confirmation.

The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Sotomayor’s nomination Tuesday. But the panel’s top Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said Monday he will postpone the vote until July 28, as allowed under committee rules.>>>>>

Read more: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003171309

[TreasonousBastard]

1. The fuckers are just stalling-- no point to it, but...

just because they can.

Maybe, just maybe, something will come up next week to change things, but more important is the message to Obama that they are capable of screwing with nominees they don't much like.

[AlbertCat]

4. they are capable of screwing with nominees they don't much like.

They aren't "screwing" with any nominees. Sotomayor will be confirmed. They can do nothing to stop it. They are just pretending to be relavant... which they aren't... by delaying the inevitable for a very short time.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Did the dems do this for Bush's picks?

:shrug:

[No Elephants]

8. Estrada, Roberts and Alito?

[24601]

25. Yeah. Not on the USSC, but there were nominees for various

Circuit Courts of Appeals that never got an up or down vote. Come to think of it, Bolton - nominated for Amb. to the UN didn't get a vote.

And before that, some Clinton nominees never got a vote either.

[JI7]

3. they are really having a hard time dealing with the fact that a Latina

belongs in such a high position and is much more qualified than they are.

[No Elephants]

9. I doubt it. It's the usual bs. Republicats versus the other Republicrats.

[AlbertCat]

5. Jeff Sessions of Alabama

A short, short sighted, pain in the ass type that others roll their eyes at and have to put up with. Every region of the country has their own version of these. The patience it takes to politely engage them all! Yikes!

I love living in NC and find Southern History utterly fascinating. Besides, I was born and raised in NC. Southerners don't bother me. But I find Sessions an embarrassment. An arrogant shit stirrer with a hayseed drawl (as opposed to an elegant drawl like Shelby Foote or even Paula Dean) and a fear that his good ol' boy club might be endangered. Keep that stereotype alive. Thanks a lot.

[Wizard777]

7. North Carolina does not have Southern history. Y'all have Yankee history.

Y'all could have been South Virginia. But nooooo you just had to be NORTH Carolina. Damn Yankees! :rofl:

I'm from Maryland and I had a cousin in South Carolina. He used to call me his Yankee Cousin. I told him the Mason Dixon line is between Maryland and Pennsylvania. That the South begins in Maryland. So I'm a Southerner too. He says, we're so Southern we think the people in North Carolina are Yankees. They could have been South Virginia. But noooo they just had to be NORTH Carolina. Damned Yankees!

But I have to admit that the Southern accent in most parts of North Carolina is heavier than in South Carolina. When you hit Georgia it gets so thick you can cut it with a knife. Then it thins out again in Florida.

[No Elephants]

10. I love the North Carolina accent. Accents will probably be a thing of the past in another

100 years, thanks to things like TV, more travel and more state-changing by the population.


I'll miss them.

:rofl:

[No Elephants]

11. Wrong spot. Sorry.

[Fearless]

6. Well Franken took nearly forever... sense a pattern...

:banghead:

[Thor_MN]

26. Well, we were supposed to seek medical attention if we had a election that lasts more than 4 hours

[No Elephants]

12. It's all a charade, a charade at taxpayer expense. They knew from Day 1

that she was going to be confirmed. Yet, they all met with her, except for a few who said they knew what their vote was going to be. And, after they all met with her, they had days of hearings, mostly about a speech she gave and one recent case in which the 2nd Circuit simply followed SCOTUS precedent, as the 2nd Circuit was required to do. What a freakin' waste of oxygen!



If I were in Sotomayor's shoes, I might have laughed and said, "That's it? That's all you have against me? Cool.

But I am really worried about you. Did you not hear my response about that speech and that case when I gave it to you in your office or when I gave it the first 40 times I was asked about it?

Have you seen a doc about your hearing? Unless of course, you hear ok, but you are incapable of processing input, which is even more serious. Whatever the problem, you obviously have a severe case of it. Please do make an appointment to be checked out and get some help for it.. You really owe it to your wife and kids, if not the nation."

[yellowcanine]

13. Jeff Sessions will do all that is in his weasally capability to do to show that he is relevant.

Slack jawed little farting worm that he is.

[SoCalDem]

14. Just call for the damned vote, and if they don't show up, so be it.

This whole "bipartisan" crap is too damned much.. How about keeping the senate IN session until they get their "work" done. no weekends off, no Mondays off, no Fridays off..and no August "break", no Labor Day Break..

[bemildred]

15. Panel delays Sotomayor vote as GOP support grows

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee put off its vote Tuesday on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for one week amid objections from the panel's conservative Republicans, even as the judge's support among GOP moderates continued to grow.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman, said his panel would vote on Sotomayor's nomination on July 28 and expressed confidence she would win confirmation by a bipartisan vote of the full Senate in time for the Supreme Court's earlier-than-usual first meeting Sept. 9.

His prediction came as Sen. Susan Collins of Maine became the latest Republican to publicly commit to voting for President Barack Obama's first high court pick.

"I know that I will not agree with every decision Justice Sotomayor reaches on the court, just as I disagree with some of her previous decisions," Collins said in a statement. However, she added that she believes Sotomayor understands a judge's proper role "and is committed to applying the law impartially without bias or favoritism."

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5huyApqmCqq9U5Hw9jP5IYR1gSQEwD99IU9I80

[Beavker]

16. Does those other than the Dem's see through this GOP crap?

How are GOP Senate polls not showing a 2% approval rating? This is all they do. Obstruct, Obstruct, Obstruct. People have to start seeing this, even those Independents and moderate Repugs that only occasionally follow political news. It's ridiculous.

[RBInMaine]

17. Collins is from Maine, and she and Snowe know they are TOAST here if they don't support her.

[spotbird]

18. She will pass

They are putting on a show for the base.

[bemildred]

19. Nobody wants to die for a lost cause. Posturing is what politicians do.

What is notable is that the Mighty Wurlitzer has failed (again) to get any traction on Sotomayor. Let's hope it also fails on public health care and the other issues crucial to stanching the bleeding in the USA.

[Arkana]

20. So is it going to be July 28?

[NJmaverick]

21. What is the justification given by the right wingnuts

for delaying the vote?

[Robb]

22. ...And these delays are costing the taxpayers HOW MUCH MONEY??? nt

[No Elephants]

23. "Judge Sotomayor is VERY troubling--but I have an open mind." ("The cameras

are on me right now, right? No?

In that case, thank God he didn't nominate a liberal because we cannot stop this, no matter what.

On the other hand, we have to make it look to the base back home as though we and we alone are holding back evil Democrats. But, we can't go too far because Republicans have enough trouble getting the Latino vote as it is. And if don't get someone other than the far white right voting for us, we're history."

Charades, anyone?

[mlevans]

24. Bravo! n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Best guess: Trying to put time between their pathetic performance and confirmation.

"We supported her all along."


The "attention span of a gnat" theory.