"Sotomayor confirmation breaks barrier; Vote reflects rift between parties" by Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | August 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor.... the 55-year-old federal appeals judge - of Puerto Rican descent, raised by her widowed mother in a New York City housing project, and a graduate with honors of two Ivy League universities - becomes just the third female justice in the court’s 219-year history.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
She's a stink elitist: Slow Saturday Special: Sotomayor and the Belizean Grove
The Senate vote was 68-31, divided largely along party lines: Sotomayor won votes from all 59 Democrats and affiliated independents who were present, but just nine Republicans voted for her. That made her the third consecutive Supreme Court nominee to be opposed by at least 20 senators - the first time that has happened in the court’s history, further evidence of the deep ideological divide on Capitol Hill.
Unless it is FUNDING WARS, CORPORATIONS, and BANKS!
Then it is LOCK-STEP!
Sotomayor, who watched the vote on television with scores of friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in New York City, is to be sworn in as the 111th justice at the Supreme Court building tomorrow. She will take two oaths, the second in public that will be the first ever open to TV cameras....
I won't be watching. I don't watch much television news (can't stomach five minutes of it). My only MSM exposure was the Globe, but that is ending now.
The confirmation vote had all the trappings of a dramatic Senate event: The public gallery was filled to capacity, senators took the formal step of assembling at their desks, and each one stood when called to cast a vote. Senator Robert Byrd, 91, a West Virginia Democrat recently hospitalized with a staph infection, came to vote in a wheelchair, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who is being treated for brain cancer, was not present.
One wonders what life-extension technology they are using on Teddy (since most people that have what he has are dead within a year) -- and when they are going to pull it on him (I predict when the healthcare bill is ready for passage; the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Act)
Janet Murguía, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy group, called the vote a “watershed day’’ for the nation. “Finally, our community has representation on the highest court in the land,’’ she said in a statement.
Yeah, it is OKAY to be a RACIST if you are NOT WHITE!!!!!!!
“Now, we’re starting to look like America,’’ added Ephraim Cruz, a Latino activist who drove six hours from the Bronx - Sotomayor’s old neighborhood - to attend the vote.
Are you sure that isn't the other way around?
For the record, you can search this blog.
You will find no racism here because the ANGUISHED CRIES and PLEAS of PROFANITY are from an OVERWHELMING LOVE OF ALL LIFE -- no matter what the color of skin!!!!
Now when you talk CLASS and RELIGIOUS EXCLUSION, well, THEN it is.... NOT RACISM!!!
