About Specter in Sotomayor hearing today,

[elleng]

any comments here? Rude? Impatient? Anything?

http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/07/15/HP/R/20835/Homepage+Confirmation+Hearings+for+Judge+Sonia+Sotomayor+Day+Three.aspx

[Thrill]

1. He was asking good questions.

I think the answers would piss anyone off. But thats what these judges do at hearings like this. I would of liked to hear clear answers to his questions. Because they were some of the best.

I mean seriously why does the court act scared to take some of the real tough cases?

[SleeplessInAlabama]

3. Because the judiciary is still not allowed to be fully independant

see also "radical judicial activism"

[ingac70]

5. bull...

Separation of powers. Not being independent isn't a matter of not being "allowed", it is through the justices own choosing.

[cali]

7. do tell. what is "radical judicial activism"? Please give an example of a SC Justice

who you think is a radical judicial activist?

[SleeplessInAlabama]

9. John Roberts.

But sadly I am not one of the grandstanders in charge of proving who is and is not a radical activist judge.

[zbdent]

6. good questions ... but he didn't let her answer them ...

[panader0]

2. Rude----I think he felt like Sonia wasn't being open enough

I still don't see him as a Democrat.

[quiller4]

4. Serious, Scholarly - yes. Rude - no. n/t

[KharmaTrain]

8. He's Probably Stealing Franken's Questions...

Just think he would have been the ranking rushpublican and probably would have had to do damage control over his racist and mysgonistic "collegues". Now he on the other side and still not sure what being a Democrat means other than hoping it saves his Senate seat. Go Joe Sustak!!!!