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	<title>Comments on: Hannity: We Should Take Note Of Only The Bad Things Anonymous Lawyers Have Said About Sotomayor</title>
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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5662665</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If N. Korea doesn&#039;t listen up, let&#039;s send Sheepdog over there.

Let&#039;s send it even if NK DOES listen up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If N. Korea doesn&#8217;t listen up, let&#8217;s send Sheepdog over there.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s send it even if NK DOES listen up.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5662665', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5662659</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please don&#039;t tell me that anyone is actually &lt;strong&gt;surprised&lt;/strong&gt; at Hannity&#039;s card-stacking, illogical, racist, sexist diatribes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please don&#8217;t tell me that anyone is actually <strong>surprised</strong> at Hannity&#8217;s card-stacking, illogical, racist, sexist diatribes?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5662659', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: BarLas</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5661243</link>
		<dc:creator>BarLas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>thank you..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5661243', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: applecheeks</title>
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		<dc:creator>applecheeks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Holy smear campaign Batman!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Holy smear campaign Batman!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5661120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: flight</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5661105</link>
		<dc:creator>flight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Merdad Says: 
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dbadass- no pal. George Walker Bush- the man that liberated over 45 millions human being
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Merdad,
 I think you have abused the meaning of the word &lt;strong&gt;liberated.&lt;/strong&gt;
Also it would be wise to let the Iraq&#039;s know they have been liberated, or take the time to ask the Iraq&#039;s their opinion.
You may just be in for a &lt;strong&gt;shock&lt;/strong&gt;!!!</description>
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<p>dbadass- no pal. George Walker Bush- the man that liberated over 45 millions human being<br />
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
<p>Merdad,<br />
 I think you have abused the meaning of the word <strong>liberated.</strong><br />
Also it would be wise to let the Iraq&#8217;s know they have been liberated, or take the time to ask the Iraq&#8217;s their opinion.<br />
You may just be in for a <strong>shock</strong>!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5661105', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5660971</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Sheepdog Says:

ELBRUCE, enlighten everyone. Where and how do you look up her record?&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/opinions.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here ya go&lt;/a&gt;.  Knock yourself out.  Glad to be of service.

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&lt;em&gt;Sheepdog Says:

If I was going before a court of law or preparing a term paper for one of the majority liberal professors in this country, you bet I&#039;d be coming at you with particular research prepared. But this is a blog. And wether you like it or not, complying with YOUR rule of supposedly presenting the facts is bull$hit.&lt;/em&gt;

Like, but at least you should present &lt;strong&gt;something&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you&#039;ve got nothing, then you&#039;ve got no reason to be arguing a side in the first place, much less any ability to.

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&lt;em&gt;Sheepdog Says:

...cause at a minimum you know I&#039;m writing from experience and a point of view. Which makes my point everyday.&lt;/em&gt;

Yeah, but we&#039;re talking about factual issues in the real world, not whiny emo poetry or whatever it is you think you&#039;re doing here.  So the facts are actually kind of relevant.

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&lt;em&gt;Merdad Says:

At least GW ended Sadam&#039;s terror chambers...&lt;/em&gt;

... and then immediately set up his own.   No, you&#039;re not doing OK at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Sheepdog Says:</p>
<p>ELBRUCE, enlighten everyone. Where and how do you look up her record?</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/opinions.htm" rel="nofollow">Here ya go</a>.  Knock yourself out.  Glad to be of service.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Sheepdog Says:</p>
<p>If I was going before a court of law or preparing a term paper for one of the majority liberal professors in this country, you bet I&#8217;d be coming at you with particular research prepared. But this is a blog. And wether you like it or not, complying with YOUR rule of supposedly presenting the facts is bull$hit.</em></p>
<p>Like, but at least you should present <strong>something</strong>.  If you&#8217;ve got nothing, then you&#8217;ve got no reason to be arguing a side in the first place, much less any ability to.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Sheepdog Says:</p>
<p>&#8230;cause at a minimum you know I&#8217;m writing from experience and a point of view. Which makes my point everyday.</em></p>
<p>Yeah, but we&#8217;re talking about factual issues in the real world, not whiny emo poetry or whatever it is you think you&#8217;re doing here.  So the facts are actually kind of relevant.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>Merdad Says:</p>
<p>At least GW ended Sadam&#8217;s terror chambers&#8230;</em></p>
<p>&#8230; and then immediately set up his own.   No, you&#8217;re not doing OK at all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660971', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ranus69</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/hannity-sotomayor-terror/comment-page-3/#comment-5660911</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see &quot;Sinister&quot; Hannity is up to his made up lies again, he is such coward and a punk. I wish he would just go away along with O&#039;Reilly and Cheney.  I worked briefly with Sotomayor here in nyc and what Hannity says is not true.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see &#8220;Sinister&#8221; Hannity is up to his made up lies again, he is such coward and a punk. I wish he would just go away along with O&#8217;Reilly and Cheney.  I worked briefly with Sotomayor here in nyc and what Hannity says is not true.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660911', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Merdad. You are the fool. You can&#039;t and you won&#039;t deal with W&#039;s support of this judge will you? Seems if you don&#039;t you will be pwned...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Merdad. You are the fool. You can&#8217;t and you won&#8217;t deal with W&#8217;s support of this judge will you? Seems if you don&#8217;t you will be pwned&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660798', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shit even that won&#039;t work. Why did you go and put that word &quot;since&quot; in there?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shit even that won&#8217;t work. Why did you go and put that word &#8220;since&#8221; in there?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660713', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does this help?

&quot;GW is one of the most honorable politician we had since Lincoln and Regan. He executed his duties to the best of his knowledge.&quot;

I suppose your best option is to claim you ment George Washington....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does this help?</p>
<p>&#8220;GW is one of the most honorable politician we had since Lincoln and Regan. He executed his duties to the best of his knowledge.&#8221;</p>
<p>I suppose your best option is to claim you ment George Washington&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660709', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay so let&#039;s deal with W shall we? May I remind you first of you comments as to his status?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay so let&#8217;s deal with W shall we? May I remind you first of you comments as to his status?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660700', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come on Merdad. Answer the question. Please don&#039;t make me make you look foolish...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come on Merdad. Answer the question. Please don&#8217;t make me make you look foolish&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660680', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WillWrite4Food</title>
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		<dc:creator>WillWrite4Food</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I&#039;m sure it&#039;s coming soon. There is an interesting subtext to the question, actually. It will be a bit ironic that a Puerto Rican - someone whose parents were U.S. Citizens solely due to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court - will soon be a member of the body that made it possible for her to be a member of that body.&lt;/em&gt;
__________

Both of Sotomayor&#039;s parents were born in Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans have had naturalized U.S. citizenship since the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917. So unless they were born before 1917 and gained citizenship some other way, they were naturalized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s coming soon. There is an interesting subtext to the question, actually. It will be a bit ironic that a Puerto Rican &#8211; someone whose parents were U.S. Citizens solely due to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court &#8211; will soon be a member of the body that made it possible for her to be a member of that body.</em><br />
__________</p>
<p>Both of Sotomayor&#8217;s parents were born in Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans have had naturalized U.S. citizenship since the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917. So unless they were born before 1917 and gained citizenship some other way, they were naturalized.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660674', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Merdad
I ask again if this is so, why did two Bush administrations disagree with your premise? Please answer the question</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Merdad<br />
I ask again if this is so, why did two Bush administrations disagree with your premise? Please answer the question<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660654', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: flavorino</title>
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		<dc:creator>flavorino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Correction-
I didn&#039;t mean to say Hannity is childish in the last post.
It would be more accurate to say his worldview is childish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Correction-<br />
I didn&#8217;t mean to say Hannity is childish in the last post.<br />
It would be more accurate to say his worldview is childish.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660644', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: flavorino</title>
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		<dc:creator>flavorino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hannity&#039;s Ideaology=
Everything the Democrats do is wrong.
Everything the Republicans do is ok.

It doesn&#039;t matter what either party actually does, nothing will ever change this equation.
He&#039;s very childish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hannity&#8217;s Ideaology=<br />
Everything the Democrats do is wrong.<br />
Everything the Republicans do is ok.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what either party actually does, nothing will ever change this equation.<br />
He&#8217;s very childish.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660639', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
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		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OT:

Good afternoon, dbadass. The warblers have moved North. Bluebirds are here. The finches have been having fun tormenting my cat. And, the morels have come and gone.</description>
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<p>Good afternoon, dbadass. The warblers have moved North. Bluebirds are here. The finches have been having fun tormenting my cat. And, the morels have come and gone.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660615', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pbeeg</title>
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		<dc:creator>pbeeg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The thing about the Supreme Court appointment is that it&#039;s the top rung. It&#039;s sometimes hard to say what happens to an ambitious person who actually gets the prize they&#039;ve wanted. All of a sudden they don&#039;t need to make deals, don&#039;t need to maneuver--they&#039;re there.
Grover Cleveland was a ruthless and ambitious politician, wheeling and dealing--but once he became president (The first Democratic President since the Civil War) he turned out to be an excellent President, a tireless worker. (His major accomplishment--instituting the Civil Service--should not be misunderestimated. It changed the face of American politics fundamentally, and for the better.) Earl Warren was an Eisenhower appointee and a supposed reliable conservative.
The thing about a Justice&#039;s status is that they are not absolutely powerful, but they are absolutely free. (as free as anyone can be in human society. It&#039;s a peculiar state.
It&#039;s a powerful inducement to grow. Warren, Burger, Rehnquist--they changed significantly while in the Chief Justice&#039;s seat. Rehnquist remained a conservative until the day he died--but he grew less predictable as the freedom gripped him.
THe dismal part for me is watching Scalia and Thomas. Scalia is just an ss hole: full of himself, not just convinced he&#039;s right, but convinced that he&#039;s a genius and a hero. Freedom&#039;s wasted on him. And Thomas is just out of his depth. He stuck like a scared child to Scalia for years, still just sits there stuck to the ideology becausehe&#039;s scared to let go.

Roberts and Alito? Remains to be seen. Roberts just seems to be a ttrue believer, interested less in the trust and the challenge of theCourt than whathe can do for the movement. Alito seems to be a less-polished version of the ame thing.

But that may change. One morning Roberts might wake up and realize what really has been given to him--and that he can do what he thinks is just, not what the Federalist Society wants.
Or maybe not.

Sotomayor seems to be a jurist that the Court would be good for. Open to growth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing about the Supreme Court appointment is that it&#8217;s the top rung. It&#8217;s sometimes hard to say what happens to an ambitious person who actually gets the prize they&#8217;ve wanted. All of a sudden they don&#8217;t need to make deals, don&#8217;t need to maneuver&#8211;they&#8217;re there.<br />
Grover Cleveland was a ruthless and ambitious politician, wheeling and dealing&#8211;but once he became president (The first Democratic President since the Civil War) he turned out to be an excellent President, a tireless worker. (His major accomplishment&#8211;instituting the Civil Service&#8211;should not be misunderestimated. It changed the face of American politics fundamentally, and for the better.) Earl Warren was an Eisenhower appointee and a supposed reliable conservative.<br />
The thing about a Justice&#8217;s status is that they are not absolutely powerful, but they are absolutely free. (as free as anyone can be in human society. It&#8217;s a peculiar state.<br />
It&#8217;s a powerful inducement to grow. Warren, Burger, Rehnquist&#8211;they changed significantly while in the Chief Justice&#8217;s seat. Rehnquist remained a conservative until the day he died&#8211;but he grew less predictable as the freedom gripped him.<br />
THe dismal part for me is watching Scalia and Thomas. Scalia is just an ss hole: full of himself, not just convinced he&#8217;s right, but convinced that he&#8217;s a genius and a hero. Freedom&#8217;s wasted on him. And Thomas is just out of his depth. He stuck like a scared child to Scalia for years, still just sits there stuck to the ideology becausehe&#8217;s scared to let go.</p>
<p>Roberts and Alito? Remains to be seen. Roberts just seems to be a ttrue believer, interested less in the trust and the challenge of theCourt than whathe can do for the movement. Alito seems to be a less-polished version of the ame thing.</p>
<p>But that may change. One morning Roberts might wake up and realize what really has been given to him&#8211;and that he can do what he thinks is just, not what the Federalist Society wants.<br />
Or maybe not.</p>
<p>Sotomayor seems to be a jurist that the Court would be good for. Open to growth.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660613', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean is correct. The judge is way too libs for us
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Why didn&#039;t two different Bush administrations think so?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean is correct. The judge is way too libs for us<br />
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Why didn&#8217;t two different Bush administrations think so?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660580', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buckie Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckie Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sheepdip Says:

If I didn&#039;t go to college will that exclude me from your graces.

Home schooling must of been rough on this one.

Take some time off, go out in the yard and weedwack the yard so the neighbors can see those nice, old, rusted out cars in front of your trailer.

You can spay paint some flowers on them for decoration.</description>
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<p>If I didn&#8217;t go to college will that exclude me from your graces.</p>
<p>Home schooling must of been rough on this one.</p>
<p>Take some time off, go out in the yard and weedwack the yard so the neighbors can see those nice, old, rusted out cars in front of your trailer.</p>
<p>You can spay paint some flowers on them for decoration.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5660532', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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