The narrative of the wingnuts against Sonia Sotomayor is that she’s a racist, based on an out-of-context quote from a speech at Berkley:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life”
The commentary from the lunatic fringe is rapidly approaching ‘peak wingnut’:
Former GOP Speaker of the House and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich, via Twitter:
White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.
You may recall my prior post about John Yoo and the politicization of the Justice Department. One of the things several bloggers have mentioned, after reading through the content and footnotes of Yoo’s 81-page torture memo (drafted when he was a rising star in the Office of Legal Counsel) was the notable absence of a particular hallmark case…
But before that, take a gander at this post at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, regarding Bush, Chertoff, and the border fence, referencing a NYTimes column:
Well, in particular, this Mukasey claim is remarkable (fast-forward to 1:21):
Mukasey blubbers about how a missed phone call from a 9/11 Hijacker, if intercepted, could have stopped 9/11. Hamilton refutes this by essentially saying this is important, yet was not shared with the 9/11 Commission, implying one of three things:
John Yoo, an Ivy League educated scholar, American Enterprise Institute scholar and fellow, current professor at UC Berkley, and former clerk for two Supreme Court Justices, has been a central figure in many of the central rethinking controversies of President Bush’s administration, including (via ThinkProgress):
To important to miss – the think tank – Family Security Matters – has since deleted the content, which lives on in perpetuity in Google's cache .
It ends with the following (via Digby):
President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
Feel free to reflect on Friends, Romans, Countrymen, specifically the part about the "evil that men do lives after them, and the good is oft interred with their bones".
Before you get all weepy-eyed, and before the "press" heralds him as a divisive but religious force, let's review some of his "highlights" [Positive Atheism via MeFi]:
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
— Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)
