Disgraced former Senate Republican aide calls on McConnell to filibuster Sotomayor.
Disgraced former Senate Republican aide calls on McConnell to filibuster Sotomayor.
Right-wing activist Manuel Mirdanda coordinated a letter that will be delivered to Senate Republicans today from “more than 145 conservatives” calling for a filibuster of the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Going further than the letter, Miranda told Politico that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should “consider resigning” his leadership role if he can’t “take a harder line” on Sotomayor. In 2004, Miranda struck a slightly different tone, calling filibustering judicial nominees “unprecedented, unconstitutional.” As Greg Sargent notes, as an aide to then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) in 2004, Miranda was caught “hacking into the computers of Senate [Democrats] and downloading thousands of documents relating to the strategies of [Democratic] Senators on judicial nominations.” Miranda resigned and now runs Third Branch Conference, “a coalition of conservatives focused on judges.”
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That’s a much more fitting title IMO.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 amThis is the level to which they have sunk?
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 amI remember this guy and anyone who takes his recommendations is a fool.
But then again, we are talking about republicans aren’t we.
If I put my mind to it, I could get 145 people to sign a petition to kiss my a*s.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am145 conservatives? Isn’t that about all there are left?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 amMiranda was caught “hacking into the computers of Senate [Democrats]
– - Merdad, Mirdanda….hmmm….
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 amHe resigned???
I Thought that Hacking into computers was a federal crime? Talk about going soft.
Dems are afraid of their own shadows. Pathetic.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 amI say let them filibuster. Sotomayor is going to get confirmed anyway as soon as the filibuster runs out of gas, and a filibuster will just spotlight the Republicans as bigoted, sexist, and obstructionist. All qualities sure to help them in the 2010 elections — especially with the Hispanic and women’s vote.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 am… Miranda was caught “hacking [...] and downloading thousands of documents relating to the strategies of [Democratic] Senators on judicial nominations.” Miranda resigned …
wait. he wasn’t ARRESTED, TRIED, CONVICTED and SENTENCED???
WHAAAAA???
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 am- – Hey TP, you’ve got the man’s name spelled Mirdanda and Miranda in your post. C’mon, It’s Miranda. After all, the man does have some rights.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 amGang, the Republicans controlled every molecule of the federal government in 2004 down to using political screens to fill career spots in justice. Who was going to prosecute him? If Monica Goodling and that crew didn’t go to jail this clown certainly wasn’t going up on charges.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 am“Do as I say, not as I do.”
Interesting tip from the letter: of the 121 people that call for the filibuster, 43 called for the relaxation of a filibuster on the Alito nomination:
Also quite interesting: they’re not calling it a “Democratic filibuster” in so much as they are calling for a “traditional filibuster”.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 amUm, why is he relevant? Or why does he think he’s relevant?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 amWow, where do these guys come from?
I know the Dem’s have their share of Wacko’s, but the Repubs seem to sink to new levels of character assassination, bigotry, and stupidity on a daily basis.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 amAs if we needed more proof of the incompetence of the Bush administration..
From sourcewatch:
Currently Miranda serves as Director of the Office of Legislative Statecraft at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. [1] His job is to give instruction on democratic principles to Iraqi lawyers and lawmakers.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manuel_Miranda#_note-WP_Miranda
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 amRE: the headline
Isn’t using the words “disgraced” and “Republican” kind of redundant?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 amCarl Rove may have been banished from the White House but his power over the Conservative Dirty tricks is alive and well. His ideas are bankrupt and divisive just as he intend them to be. Like a good little Nazi he comforts himself and his zealots by wrapping a blanket of delusion and disinformation around his small group of devotees. Progressives should let him and then give the whole bunch a “blanket party” they’ll never forget. The mainstream media deserves one, too, for letting these thugs have equal time to spread their disinformation. It’s all so slimy and moldy just the people pushing this anti-american propaganda.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 amI’ll say it again… they really are determined to destroy their party! So much for the female and Latino vote huh guys? :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 amManny’s got one thing right “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should “consider resigning”
They really need a leader with a chin that can take the blows they are self inflicting.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 amWhy isn’t Miranda in jail?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:39 amMaybe they forgot to read him his rights.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 amThis “Third Branch Conference” doesn’t seem to have any web presence whatsoever. Google gives me a lot of other people talking about them, but nothing of theirs. Hmm… maybe they’re scared of getting hacked. But in this day and age, if your group doesn’t have a website, it might as well just be a rumor.
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katy Says:
wait. he wasn’t ARRESTED, TRIED, CONVICTED and SENTENCED???
IOKIYAR. See Watergate for further details.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 amMcConnell should consider resigning his leadership role if he doesn’t listen to a criminal?! HAHA!
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 amDoes this mean he was never charged? WTF?!!
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 amMaybe they have a secret meeting place, sign loyalty oaths, and drink puppy blood like Dick Cheney
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 amThey act like a bunch of juvenile delinquents in school. They refuse to do the work and contribute so they try to find ways to disrupt business and obstruct. The conservative wing of the wingnut party is demonstrating why they have lost the last two elections and will lose the next one as well. They are out of touch. They have nothing to contribute and they are failures at governance. They do not belong in government.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 amMaybe thinking that government writ large is “the problem” and being a government official is a combination that has devolution and dissembling written all over it.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pmThese wingnuts never quit. They are like a bunch of nasty chuchuas nipping at your heels all the time. Their bark is worst than they’re bite.
They got nothing but their yapping bark and little nipping bites.
Anyone have some canvas bags and some rocks?
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pmConservatives following, willingly, the lead of a crook?
I am shocked, shocked!, I tell ya…
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pmStone Cutters? Can someone please attach the stone of shame to this dude…
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 pmElBruce says @ 22:
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pmI just tried to find their site too. Came back saying “Under Construction”. Bet it never comes online.
If he hacked into the dems computers in 2004, why wasn’t he prosecuted under the numerous acts which define this as a matter of terrorism ?
IOKIYAR ?
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pmWow! 145 (disgruntled and sour grapes praticing) Conservatives. I guess those are ‘big’ numbers for those clowns these days!
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