Republicans Should Accede to Sonia Sotomayor
The Republicans should accede to Sonia Sotomayor.
Think about that.
And a lady of my beliefs and character saying anything that appalling! The woman has no qualifications to be on anything more elevated than a park bench. She has no judgement, no legal skills, single vision, and has made her way upwards on the preferential treatment arising from her privileged status as a female and Hispanic. She may hold the record for having her decisions overturned by higher courts. Why would I propose that such a travesty be perpetrated upon the Court?
After dawdling suitably (the Demmies are less dangerous raving about the glories of wise Latinas–despite Harry Reid not having bothered to read a single one of the cases she has decided–than they are when pressing full steam ahead on their even worse proposed legislation), the Republicans need to acquiesce sweetly. They can’t stop the Obamanaut anyway. They should at least trade their votes for time.
The real reason is that Madame Kowtowtominorities isn’t suited to such a position but every time we fight the bunch in power and think we have won the next thing they spring is far worse. Consider the original “stimulus” bill. It was three pages long. It was beaten back and replaced with something the length of a stack of Allen Drury or Tom Clancy novels, as full of fiction, but not nearly as entertaining or well-written.
Sonya will be bad, but indifferently bad. She will be no worse than what she will replace, which in these trying times is probably a triumph. She will maintain the wretched status quo, which is the closest thing to a loss which can be inflicted upon our enemies.
Remember the female who was promised either a seat on the Supreme Court or that she would be the first woman president if she didn’t drop kick the POTUS down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and set his much-handled shorts on fire? Yeah, that one, currently winning friends and impressing people in the Middle East.
The only disaster bigger than Obama playing in the oval office (differently from the way Bill Clinton did it, of course. Or so we suppose.) would be Obama in the White House and La Belle Clinton as a hanging judge on the Supreme Court. That is a vision to put ice crystals in the blood. A truly horrid thought is that Hillary remains wildly popular with her party–including strong support from those who would love to see her with the Supremes because then she wouldn’t be in the way of their darling, the modern equivalent of sticking a rival in the Vestal Virgins for thirty years or sending wealthy widows to convents.
Voting against Hillary would be difficult for Republicans because I can hear the mantra now. Beating up on that fabulously-qualified woman, a distinguished attorney (who got her only job offer because Bill pulled strings), the woman who revamped the Arkansas school system (it became #50 on the list), a former Senator (never mind that she ran in a pocket borough) and the current Secretary of State? Shame and fie, Sirs and Madams.
The only “green shoot” I see in this position is a political chart that looks like one of our moving average plots. Six months of Marxism is about all even some former starry-eyed supporters of The Chosen One can take. The chart shows a soothing X formation emerging, as those who strongly disapprove of where Obama is shoving this nation are on the upswing. Even the man’s enormous personal popularity is getting the gilt worn off, revealing the base metal beneath.
Pah. Sheer frustration and fury are having to chart politics as a concomitant to charting stocks. I feel like Cato (another of my heroes) because what is there to say other than to echo Paul Revere? “The Greater Depression is coming! The Greater Depression is coming!” We feel like the Lady of Shalott: “The Doom is come upon me!” Finally, Cato: “And, in conclusion, I would like to say that now is the time to buy all the silver you can get your hands on.”
Silver finished the week off by dropping another twenty cents, and gold let go of a dollar grudgingly late in the day, and I really have to start a chart because it is difficult to keep up mentally with “Down .30, .20, .27, .01, .20…n” or however it went.
Fortunately, I still say, Cato-like, “The lower silver goes, the better I like it.” You couldn’t pry mine out of my hands with a crow bar. I’m holding it for the day when it can be swapped for land at very advantageous prices.
I would really like to know why you are accumulating silver. Are you buying to double the value when the gold:silver ratio finally returns to traditional ranges? Are you hoping for a giant increase in price so that you can sell, and buy…what? Are you keeping it as I do, as your primary safety factor if the dollar crashes or is replaced with a Globo or Amero, and/or for a Depression so deep silver is a premium barter item?
Many of the economic and financial problems–which drive the social and political messes–are the result of concatenation of decades of not having hard money. Heinlein jested that virginity is a curable perversity, and so is fiat money. The problem is, there is too much money and power in funny money, and we’re going to have to wait until Bernanke bombs us back into the Dark Ages dropping bundles of increasingly worthless green paper on us.
Regards,
Linda Brady Traynham
July 14, 2009
Linda Brady Traynham
Linda Brady Traynham is a former editor and analytical project report writer and is now a Whiskey & Gunpowder field correspondent on a ranch in the Republic of Texas. She studied Counseling at Boston University and got her Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii.
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Yes political ideologues are funny like the fact that Sarah Palin never accomplished anything and quits half way into her term but maintains a 70 % approval rating among republicans who want her to be the next POTUS. Or the Fact that BUSH did a nice job of destroying this country but is still considered a good president by some.Stupidity flows freely in both camps .
DEAR DOUG:
YOU WROTE “Yes political ideologues are funny like the fact that Sarah Palin never accomplished anything and quits half way into her term but maintains a 70 % approval rating among republicans who want her to be the next POTUS. Or the Fact that BUSH did a nice job of destroying this country but is still considered a good president by some.Stupidity flows freely in both camps.” ALTHOUGH I AM NOT QUITE CERTAIN WHY.
DIDN’T YO’ MAMA TELL YOU NOT TO SAY NUTHIN’ IF YOU CAIN’T SAY SOMETHIN’ NICE?
“MRS. TRAYNHAM!” I CAN HEAR YOU EXCLAIM. “YOU STARTED IT BY INSULTING THE WISE LATINA WOMAN WHO HAS A .333 BATTING AVERAGE WITH HER DECISIONS NOT BEING OVERTURNED BY THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT!”
INDEED, I DID POINT OUT THAT I DO NOT CONSIDER HER QUALIFIED TO BE ON THE SUPREME COURT, BUT I DID ADVISE NOT ARGUING OVER TRIFLES AND CONFIRMING HER. MOREOVER, I DID IT ON MY OWN PLAYGROUND WIITH MY BAT AND BALL, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE MY RULES THERE ARE ANY NUMBER OF OTHER SITES WHERE YOU CAN GO PRAISE LIBERAL IDEOLOGY TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT I WRITE YOU HAVE A VERY SIMPLE RECOURSE: DON’T READ IT. AROUND HERE WE’RE INTERESTED IN PRACTICALITIES NOT IRRATIONAL RHETORIC.
I WILL COMPLIMENT YOUR LEADER, THOUGH, AND AGREE THAT HE IS INFINITELY DUBYA’S SUPERIOR WHEN IT COMES TO DESTROYING THE ECONOMY AND APPEARING WEAK IN THE EYES OF OUR ENEMIES. HE HOLDS THE RECORDS FOR BEING THE ONLY PRESIDENT EVER TO BOW BEFORE A FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE, CRITICIZING OUR COUNTRY AROUND THE WORLD, AND SPENDING AS MUCH MONEY–WHICH WE DON’T HAVE–AS ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED. QUITE A LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN A “MERE” (OR ENDLESS, DEPENDING UPON ONE’S VIEWPOINT) SIX MONTHS.
I HAVE NEVER MENTIONED MRS. PALIN IN ANY CONTEXT, BUT AT LEAST SHE KNOWS HOW TO BRING DOWN A MOOSE.
IF YOU WISH TO HAVE A CIVILIZED, FACT-ORIENTED DISCUSSION, PLEASE WRITE AGAIN. IN THE MEANTIME, THANK FOR YOUR CHARMING LETTER. IT MAKES ME LOOK BETTER WHEN I GET RESPONSES, PARTICULARY THE FEW LIKE YOURS.
LBT
I love when Republicans think I am a liberal . My candidate was Ron Paul and I challenge you to tell me how W was a conservative in any sense of the word ? How did he lower Govt spending or get govt out of our lives. This is the whole problem, people who think they have Conservative ideas are just tools of the pundit masters and never learn what a conservative is . Must of hit nerve with all those caps .
I would also like to point out that like most people whether typing or speaking that screaming your opinion does not make you right only loud if your points are real they should be able to be heard whispered .
Dear Doug:
Got me fair and square…but what makes you think I’m a Republican? Other than a Jeffersonian Agrarian Republican!
No, you didn’t hit a nerve with all caps, but since I can’t talk the publishers out of “rich text,” I am not able to change font or color to differentiate between what someone else said and what I said. All that leaves me is all caps, or confusion.
If you really want to know, the thing I liked best about Dubya was that he held hands with Laura a lot, which I thought delightful after Hillary screaming and throwing things at Bill much of the time.
We have a rule in my oasis: ALL (to show you where the emphasis in the sentence goes) discussion is academic. We do not indulge in ad hominen attacks. We are not discourteous. The only thing worth arguing over is principles, and if we don’t agree on those one of us should leave the room anyway. Chuckle. And I NEVER raise my voice!
If I may make a non-critical observation, your letter did not make clear that you were a dispassionate observer of world doings. What you said is very similar to the rare disapproving comments I get. I do apologize most sincerely for mistaking your intentions.
Your turn at bat, Doug. What would you like to talk about?
Linda
I agree with Doug anyone who is a Bush apologist is as disgusting as a Obama socialist, after all socialism began with the great DUMBYA and his statement we must bail out capitalism in order to save it . Bailouts started before Obama ever entered office and both presidential candidates ran back to D.C to pass the bail out package. The only way we will ever move forward is to realize that republicans are just as bad as democrats , except for Ron Paul who was vilified by the so called conservative idiot pundits
Dear Neocon Facist:
Anybody ever seen me apologizing for Dubya? You really haven’t heard my opinion on Bush Senior! I villify the man every time I see all the good parking places in the US off limits to the likes of me. He never understood–as Bill Clinton did superbly–that his most important job was to veto every bit of legislation the other side passed.
I, too, am an admirer of Dr. Paul, who has his own seat in Congress and a terrific web site and doesn’t need my stamp of approval. Mo’ bettah Dr. Paul should tell ME “well done” and cheer up my day, because it would mean a great deal more to me than the other way around, you see.
Now that we have all vented our frustrations, what say we get back to working out how to save our necks? We can work out precise gradations of blame while most of the survivors are huddled around cooking fires roasting geckos. I can see the day when Michelle Ma Belle Obama, the miniature donkey I got from a petting zoo, is our “pick up truck.” Bonnie Blue and Buck will be our transportation, either under saddle or pulling the doctor’s buggy…we may reinstitute droit du seigneur, being such bloated plutocrats, reveling in our reasonably plump chickens who subsist on things that leap, jump, wriggle, and creep…harvesting roots and berries in the woods to roast for ersatz coffee we sell to the desperate, Juan Valdez having become a distant memory…
Your task for today, please, gentlemen, is to contribute something useful to the discussion instead of indulging in recriminations. How are we to preserve the best standards of living possible personally? What’s good for General Bullmoose may not be good for the country, but what’s good for LBT is at least good for LBT, ditto you two working out how to have what you want.
Have I NO social conscience? Not a bit!
Linda
what an ignorant rant. look past the two party hologram and understand that only puppets occupy all branches of govt, and you will have something to talk about. reagan/bush/clinton/obama… all the same – stooges for the oligarchs.
another grand myth… is about ‘dark ages’ and the renaissance, or the beginning of corporatism.
here’s a nice start if you’d like to crack the matrix:
http://www.realitysandwich.com.....s_rushkoff
Dear James:
Thank you for your witty, pertinent, intellectual response to my modest little article. I will get to “reality sandwich” as soon as I beat my e-mail back from 997. They close my box at 1000, you see.
You wrote: “what an ignorant rant. look past the two party hologram and understand that only puppets occupy all branches of govt, and you will have something to talk about. reagan/bush/clinton/obama… all the same – stooges for the oligarchs.” and
“another grand myth… is about ‘dark ages’ and the renaissance, or the beginning of corporatism.”
James, I am, indeed, ignorant about some things…such as how to hand craft an incandescent light bulb…and diagnosing botts…why anyone wears black lipstick, and how anyone could be a fascistic, socialistic, Statist…but I NEVER rant.
I never raise my voice for any reason, nor do I allow loud, angry voices in my presence, and all discussions here are academic. We do not indulge in ad hominen arguments.
At the very least we are going to have The Greater Depression, and very likely the anti-Industrial Revolution. The future will belong primarily to two classes: the elite, and those who manage to escape to a lifestyle reminescent of 1820 (IF they can get away from the legislation being rammed through Congress.) Life will be good for the Rajahs, the Czars, warlords, chieftains, commanders of mercenaries, the lawless, and hermits. The rest will be, as Ayn Rand commented, “huddled in huts along the Ganges,” or in vast city slums.
The Renaissance was a delightful time for the upper classes. Most eras of history are. The solution, my dear, is to position yourself so that you are not one of those on a fixed, declining income in a period of rising costs and devalued fiat currency. Develop the spirit of a robber baron or a feudal earl, learn to survive entirely through your own efforts, or resign yourself to want and squalor.
One facet of history I am particularly aware of is that when tools cease to be uselful they are discarded ruthlessly by those who duped them. The vast welfare voting block and unions have served its purpose of electing a totally fascistic Congress and president. They have in place all the judges, executive orders, presidential signings, and legislation needed to put a stop to any pretense that this is a republic devoted to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for more than a very few. Sooner or late those groups are going to have to share the wealth they have wrested from the rest of us. We can all starve together, or a few of us can work out better options. Are you doing any planning along those lines? If so, I would like to hear about your preparations.
Thank you for writing,
Linda Traynham
Well, geez Linda…do you think that Thomas is qualified to sit on that bench? I’ll bet you don’t.
Dear Gotta Be Kidding:
I think Clarence Thomas is QUITE well qualified to be on the Supreme Court, particularly if he has learned not to hire people based on the color of their skin. Any other questions? LBT
Congratulations to Sotomayor! I am suprised that nobody has called her a racist yet. I am sure it is coming. Just to pre-empt this the modern definition (as it is used today) of racism is: hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. So before you call her this because of one comment think about what you are doing. Does she really hate other races? Maybe her comment was a bit ethnocentric but taken in the context of the audience to whom she was addressing I wouldn’t make a big deal about it. If that is the only thing the Repubs can come up with that caused them to vote against her I think she must be a very solid choice.
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